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\nBassil Hafez won’t be able to fight until March 2027. |
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Bassil Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cDuring CSAD\u2019s investigation, Hafez provided full and complete \u201cEvidence gathered during the investigation indicated that, CSAD determined that Hafez did not use ipamorelin to gain an On Tuesday, Hafez announced that he had failed a drug test via \u201cI took a supplement during my healing process that ended up \u201cAt the end of the day, it falls on me for not double and triple \u201cI\u2019ve been tested my entire career (17 times to be exact) and have Hafez made his Octagon debut in 2023, giving future welterweight <\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bassil Hafez won’t be able to fight until March 2027. | Getty\/UFC Bassil Hafez has been suspended for one year after failing an out-of-competition drug test earlier this year. UFC anti-doping partner Combat Sports Anti-Doping announced the sanction on Wednesday. The welterweight fighter tested positive for ipamorelin, a prohibited peptide hormone, in a sample collected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHafez<\/a> has been suspended for one year after failing an
\nout-of-competition drug test earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\nUFC<\/a> anti-doping partner Combat Sports Anti-Doping announced<\/a> the sanction on Wednesday. The welterweight
\nfighter tested positive for ipamorelin, a prohibited peptide
\nhormone, in a sample collected on March 20 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
\ncooperation as defined under the UFC ADP,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHis
\ncooperation included identifying and introducing CSAD to a wellness
\nclinic he had used to obtain substances he believed were permitted
\nfor injury recovery purposes. Hafez has not competed since November
\n2024 due to injury and did not have a bout scheduled at the time
\nthe sample was collected. <\/p>\n
\nalthough Hafez claimed he was unaware that a product provided to
\nhim by the wellness clinic contained ipamorelin, he acted with
\ngross negligence by consuming the product without conducting
\nadequate due diligence regarding its ingredients and their
\nprohibited status.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nadvantage in any scheduled competition. He will be able to return
\nto UFC competition on March 20, 2027.<\/p>\nLesson Learned<\/h2>\n
\nsocial media.<\/p>\n
\ncontaining a banned substance. I had provided the clinic with the
\nbanned substance list and made it clear that those ingredients were
\nnot allowed, but it still ended up being included in the mix,\u201d
\nHafez wrote.<\/p>\n
\nchecking before taking it. Being injured and sidelined from the
\nsport I\u2019ve spent the last 16 years training for has been incredibly
\nrough, both mentally and physically. The could\u2019ve, would\u2019ve,
\nshould\u2019ve won\u2019t change anything now.<\/p>\n
\nnever had a positive test or any issues before this. All I can say
\nis that mistakes happen, and I\u2019ll learn from this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nchamp Jack
\nDella Maddalena<\/a> a tough test before falling via split decision
\nat UFC on ESPN 49. \u201cThe Habibi\u201d has since earned a three-round
\nverdict against Mickey Gall<\/a>
\nbefore suffering a knockout loss to Oban
\nElliott<\/a> at UFC 309.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n