{"id":50960,"date":"2025-10-13T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-doping-control-failures-ufc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:22:46","slug":"mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-doping-control-failures-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-doping-control-failures-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor suspended 18 months for doping control failures UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Anti-Doping Test Failure<\/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 sanction, which began on September 20, 2024, will extend until March 20, 2026.\n\nThis suspension comes after McGregor accumulated three &#8220;whereabouts failures&#8221; in which he did not show up for scheduled drug tests.\n\nThe failures occurred on the following dates:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>June 13, 2024<\/li>\n<li>September 19, 2024<\/li>\n<li>September 20, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAccording to a CSAD statement, UFC athletes must provide accurate location information to facilitate no-notice testing. McGregor did not comply with this requirement on the mentioned dates.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;McGregor failed to appear for three biological sample collection attempts within a 12-month period in 2024, which constitutes a violation of the UFC&#8217;s anti-doping program,&#8221; states the CSAD statement.<\/p><cite>CSAD<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDespite these breaches, CSAD acknowledged that McGregor was recovering from an injury and was not in preparation for a fight at the time of the failed tests.\n\nCSAD also highlighted McGregor&#8217;s cooperation during the investigation, which led to a six-month reduction in the standard 24-month sanction for three whereabouts failures.\n\nThe suspension comes shortly after McGregor announced on social media that he would be taking an indefinite break.\n\nCurrently, the two-division former champion is in the UFC&#8217;s drug testing pool, and has submitted four samples in 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Anti-Doping Test Failure 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 sanction, which began on September 20, 2024, will extend until March 20, 2026. This suspension comes after McGregor accumulated three &#8220;whereabouts failures&#8221; [&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-50960","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\/50960","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=50960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}