Stephan Bonnar, Dave Herman fail UFC 153 drug tests, await potential suspensions

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UFC 153 fighters Stephan Bonnar (15-8 MMA, 8-7 UFC) and Dave Herman
(21-5 MMA, 1-3 UFC) each tested positive for banned substances in their
post-fight drug screens.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com)
today confirmed with Ultimate Fighting Championship officials that all
24 fighters who competed at this past month's UFC 153 event in Brazil
were tested, and Bonnar and Herman were the lone two competitors who
failed the screen.

Bonnar tested positive for Drostanolone, an anabolic steroid, while Herman's screen was flagged for marijuana metabolites.

UFC 153 took place Oct. 13 at Rio de Janeiro's HSBC Arena. Anderson
Silva defeated Bonnar in the evening's headliner while Herman was
submitted by Antonio Rodrgio Nogueira in the co-main event.

With the lack of an athletic commission to govern the event, UFC
officials took the role of overseeing the fight card. UFC exec Marc
Ratner said the company has yet to issue a suspension to the fighters
but is expected to do so sometime next week.

Bonnar earlier this week announced his retirement. His first positive
test and subsequent suspension came after UFC 62, at which he dropped a
unanimous decision loss to Forrest Griffin in their rematch. At that
event, the Las Vegas-based Bonnar tested positive for a Boldenone metabolite that resulted from anabolic-steroid use.


Following the suspension, Bonnar owned up to the infraction, saying he
was trying to speed up the rehab of an injured elbow in time for the
Griffin fight. He was suspended for nine months by the Nevada State
Athletic Commission and fined $5,000.


After a three-fight losing skid that included unanimous decision losses
to eventual light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and UFC Hall of Famer
Mark Coleman, Bonnar bounced back in 2010 with a second-round TKO win
over Krzysztof Soszynski, then dominant unanimous decision wins over
Igor Pokrajac and Kyle Kingsbury.


After a layoff of nearly a year, he got the chance of his career when he
was asked to face Silva in Brazil in a light heavyweight bout on just a
month's notice. Bonnar came out swinging, but eventually succumbed to a
Silva knee to the midsection and follow-up punches on the ground in the
first round. It was the first time he had been stopped, not counting
two stoppages from cuts.


"Huge thanks to every UFC fan out there!" the Carlson Gracie-trained
Bonnar stated on Facebook, announcing his retirement. "All I ever wanted
was to bring ya'll some fun...hope u were entertained. Peace, love,
& violence!"


Earlier this week, Bonnar's wife gave birth to the couple's first child.

Drostanolone is an anabolic steroid in the dihydrotestosterone family.
Earlier this year, former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal tested positive for the same substance.

For Herman, the failed test is also his second offense. The heavyweight
was in 2011 scratched from a planned matchup with Mike Russow when he failed a pre-fight drug screen
issued by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Herman
later revealed marijuana was the offending substance, though he denied
using the drug.

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I hate how the UFC does their drug testing (unrelated to how stupid I think it is to begin with).
Why don't they just tell all fighters that they are subject to random drug tests at anytime they are under contract (not to exceed some number in a year... maybe 4). Then the fighters don't know when they are coming, won't be able to play cycling games with the calendar, and we won't have this bullshit of guys being fingered weeks after they fight. It's just stupid.

i dont think it matters if its random or not, just look at Armstrong.
and i think its better if they test them after the events anyway, otherwise we would have most of them canceled, since i think, a lot of the fighters are using anyway. ufc is doing for that reason.