Last week it was announced that Anderson Silva had been removed from his upcoming middleweight bout with Kelvin Gastelum at UFC Shanghai as results of failed an out-of-competition USADA test administered on Oct. 26.
Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva released another statement on Thursday that my “medical team is working very closely with USADA.”
Silva, previously suspended for a year due to the failed an in-competition test by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) related to his middleweight bout at UFC 183 fight with Nick Diaz, is provisionally suspended pending a hearing.
Due to of his failed drug test, he is replaced with former middleweight champ Michael Bisping at UFC shanghai on Nov. 25.
