March 20, 2025 2:05 pm ET
Heavyweight Danylo Voievodkin has but to hit the UFC cage however has already failed one of many promotion’s drug checks.
UFC anti-doping program Fight Sports activities Anti-Doping introduced Thursday that Voievodkin (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) failed an out-of-competition check and has been suspended two years. A pattern from an Oct. 17 assortment was optimistic for Meldonium.
Meldonium is “prohibited always substance within the class of Hormone and Metabolic Modulators,” in line with CSAD.
“CSAD has additional decided that no mitigating elements exist on this case to warrant a departure from the usual 24-month sanction for the usage of Meldonium, a non-specified substance underneath the UFC ADP,” a written assertion from CSAD mentioned Thursday.
Ukraine’s Voievodkin, 24 had been provided a UFC contract lower than one month prior when he upset Bailey Schoenfelder with a quick submission on Dana White’s Contender Collection.
Voievodkin might be eligible to return Nov. 10, 2026 – two years from when he was positioned on suspension.
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