Michel Prazeres Accepts Two-Year USADA Suspension for Anti-Doping Violation
UFC welterweight Michel Prazeres has accepted a two-year USADA suspension after testing positive for an anabolic agent.
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Prazeres’ suspension is retroactive to the date of the positive tests, meaning he will be eligible to return to active competition in March 2021.
The 38-year-old Prazeres hasn’t competed since dropping a unanimous
decision to Ismail
Naurdiev at UFC Fight Night 145 on Feb. 23, 2019. That ended an
eight-bout winning streak within the Las Vegas-based promotion for
the Brazilian. “Trator” is 10-3 in the UFC and 26-3 as a
professional overall, with wins over the likes of Gilbert
Burns, Zak
Cummings and Joshua
Burkman, among others.
The USADA statement regarding Prazeres is as follows:
USADA announced today that Michel Prazeres of Belém, Brazil, has accepted a two-year sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy after testing positive for a prohibited substance.
Prazeres, 38, tested positive for exogenous boldenone and its metabolite 5β-androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-one as the result of two out-of-competition urine samples he provided on March 9, 2019. Confirmation of the positive test was achieved through additional analysis using the sensitive isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/C/IRMS) method, which reported laboratory results consistent with the exogenous origin of boldenone. Boldenone is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and is prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy and UFC Prohibited List.
Prazeres’ two-year period of ineligibility began on March 9, 2019, the date his positive samples were collected.
