{"id":231527,"date":"2016-07-16T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T10:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231527"},"modified":"2016-07-16T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T10:52:59","slug":"brock-lesnar-ufc-star-flagged-for-possible-failed-drugs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231527","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar: UFC star flagged for possible failed drugs test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">WWE superstar Brock Lesnar is being investigated by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) over a potential failed drug test, according to the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>The possible violation was detected in an out of competition test on 28 June &#8211; before Lesnar&#8217;s appearance at UFC 200.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar, 39, beat Mark Hunt in a heavyweight fight at the July 9 event.<\/p>\n<p>Usada, the UFC and Lesnar declined to specify the substance in question, but Lesnar told The Associated Press: &#8220;We will get to the bottom of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A UFC statement<i class=\"sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external\"><\/i> added: &#8220;Usada will handle the results management and appropriate adjudication of this case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to note that, under the UFC anti-doping policy, there is a full, fair legal review process that is afforded to all athletes before any sanctions are imposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar, who is scheduled to return to WWE in August, beat Hunt in his first UFC fight since 2011 and made a record $2.5m (\u00a31.9m) for the bout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE superstar Brock Lesnar is being investigated by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) over a potential failed drug test, according to the UFC. The possible violation was detected in an out of competition test on 28 June &#8211; before Lesnar&#8217;s appearance at UFC 200. Lesnar, 39, beat Mark Hunt in a heavyweight fight at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":231528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}