{"id":46215,"date":"2025-10-08T16:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-anti-doping-control-failures-ufc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:38:22","slug":"mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-anti-doping-control-failures-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-anti-doping-control-failures-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Suspended 18 Months for Anti-Doping Control Failures UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Doping Violations<\/h2>\n\nThe renowned mixed martial arts fighter, Conor McGregor, has been suspended for 18 months by the UFC&#8217;s anti-doping program, Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD). The suspension, which began on September 20, 2024, will extend until March 20, 2026.\n\nThis sanction comes after McGregor failed to meet the location requirements for anti-doping tests.\n\nFailures in location controls, also known as &#8220;whereabout failures&#8221;, occurred on three separate occasions during 2024.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>McGregor did not provide precise information about his whereabouts, which prevented the performance of unannounced anti-doping tests.<\/p><cite>CSAD Statement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe lost tests occurred on June 13, September 19, and September 20, 2024.\n\nOn June 13, the day the scheduled McGregor vs. Michael Chandler fight at UFC 303 was canceled, also coincided with one of the fighter&#8217;s location failures.\n\nCSAD acknowledged that McGregor was in the process of recovering from an injury and was not preparing for a fight at the time of the failed tests.\n\nDespite the failures, McGregor fully cooperated with the CSAD investigation, accepting responsibility and providing detailed information.\n\nDue to cooperation and mitigating circumstances, CSAD reduced the standard 24-month sanction for three location failures in six months.\n\nThe current suspension will end on March 20, 2026.\n\nThis suspension comes a day after McGregor announced on X that he would be taking an indefinite break from social media. Currently, the former two-division champion is in the UFC&#8217;s drug testing pool, having submitted four samples in 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Doping Violations The renowned mixed martial arts fighter, Conor McGregor, has been suspended for 18 months by the UFC&#8217;s anti-doping program, Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD). The suspension, which began on September 20, 2024, will extend until March 20, 2026. This sanction comes after McGregor failed to meet the location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7030,6643,110,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-46215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-anti-doping","8":"tag-conor-mcgregor","9":"tag-suspension","10":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}