Brock Lesnar re-entered the USADA testing pool earlier this year and while the date is not confirmed he is expected to return to the octagon sometime next year.
However, he made some headlines recently for an unusual reason when The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) made a mistake on their website.
The agency updated their website in mid-October stating that Lesnar has now been tested six times, however, the number was recently dropped back to five.
This raised a lot of eyebrows and it became a hot enough topic of discussion that USADA had to respond via an official statement, saying that a glitch in their website was responsible for this mistake and 5 is the real number:
“USADA updates the Athlete Test History page of the UFC/USADA website on a weekly basis. During an update on the week of October 15th, we experienced a technical issue that resulted in the information on the page being displayed incorrectly.
“The correct test history for the athlete is one test [that week], not two. The issue has been fixed and the testing numbers on the website are all accurate. We are still investigating the specific technical issue that led to the error.”
Later UFC also responded to this press release and the UFC Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance, Jeff Novitzky said the following:
“I have access to a more specific database than the public, which displays the date a sample is collected, what type of sample it is and what the results are as soon as they are available,” Novitzky said.
“The public website, as I understand it, indicated there had been two tests during this last quarter, and it recently dropped to one. I have always seen one test in this quarter for Lesnar. It was a urine test and it came back negative.”
