UFC featherweight star Chad Mendes has failed a random USADA drug test, reports are indicating. At this time, further details of the failure’s nature—substance, amount, etc.—aren’t available.
Fight fans lost another big name this week as Kimbo Slice died on Monday. The 42-year-old knockout artist was, of course, no Muhammad Ali, who also passed away this past week.
Ken Shamrock, Kimbo Slice, Frank Mir, Lyoto Machida, Viscardi Andrade, and Islam Makhachev have all made headlines after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in recent months (and in the case of Machida, Mir, Andrade, and Makhachev, in recent month)
This week in MMA was admittedly a bit slow in terms of news, but WSOF 29 delivered some solid action, and there were still a reasonable number of developments for fans to enjoy.