Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said the company's partnership with the UFC will end upon the conclusion of its current contract Dec. 31.
Tygart said in the statement that the UFC informed USADA on Monday that it would not renew the contract, which has been in place since 2015 and was ground-breaking at the time. UFC executives Hunter Campbell and Jeff Novitzky weren't immediately available for comment.
McGregor coached on the UFC's reality show,"The Ultimate Fighter," which aired this year, with the plan to fight Michael Chandler. But he did not reenter the USADA drug-testing program until Sunday, according to Tygart's statement. If an athlete leaves the USADA testing program, as McGregor did, he's required to produce two clean test results and wait six months.
"We can confirm that Conor McGregor has reentered the USADA testing pool as of Sunday, October 8, 2023," Tygart said in his statement."We have been clear and firm with the UFC that there should be no exception given by the UFC for McGregor to fight until he has returned two negative tests and been in the pool for at least six months.
Tygart then referred to comments made by Joe Rogan, a UFC television analyst for its domestic pay-per-view shows, from his podcast,"The Joe Rogan Experience," in which Rogan said he didn't like the six-month wait.
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