{"id":51370,"date":"2025-10-14T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-failing-ufc-drug-tests-5\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:24:21","slug":"mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-failing-ufc-drug-tests-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-failing-ufc-drug-tests-5\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Suspended 18 Months for Failing UFC Drug Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Anti-Doping Test Failure<\/h2>\n\nThe MMA 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 end on March 20, 2026.\n\nThis sanction comes after McGregor accumulated three &#8220;whereabouts failures&#8221; in 2024, meaning he did not show up for drug tests on the specified dates or provide accurate information about his location.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMcGregor failed to appear for three attempts to collect biological samples within a 12-month period in 2024, which constitutes a violation of the UFC&#8217;s ADP,\u201d according to a CSAD press release published on the UFC website.<\/p><cite>CSAD<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe violations occurred on June 13, September 19, and September 20, 2024. CSAD classifies these incidents as &#8220;whereabouts failures&#8221; under the UFC&#8217;s anti-doping program. Athletes must provide accurate location information at all times to facilitate no-notice testing.\n\nOn June 13, the day of the first missed test, also coincided with the announcement of the cancellation of McGregor&#8217;s scheduled fight against Michael Chandler at UFC 303. CSAD noted that McGregor was recovering from an injury and not preparing for a fight at the time of the failed tests.\n\nIn consideration of McGregor&#8217;s cooperation with the investigation and his explanation of the circumstances, CSAD reduced the standard 24-month sanction for three whereabouts failures in six months.\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, with four samples submitted in 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor Receives 18-Month Suspension for Anti-Doping Test Failure The MMA 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 end on March 20, 2026. This sanction comes after McGregor accumulated three &#8220;whereabouts failures&#8221; in 2024, meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7030,6643,110,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-51370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-anti-doping","9":"tag-conor-mcgregor","10":"tag-suspension","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51370","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=51370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}