PFL fighter and UFC veteran Don Madge lately introduced his retirement from preventing, but it surely seems he wasn’t going to be competing once more for an extended whereas in any case.
On Monday, the USA Anti-Doping Company introduced that Madge acquired a two-year suspension after testing constructive for a banned substance as a part of the PFL’s doping coverage.
“Madge, 34, examined constructive for an anabolic agent as the results of an in-competition pattern collected at PFL 6 on June 28, 2024,” USADA officers wrote in a press launch. “His urine pattern was analyzed utilizing a specialised check referred to as IRMS (Isotope ratio mass spectrometry) that differentiates between anabolic androgenic steroids naturally produced by the physique and prohibited anabolic brokers of exterior origin. The IRMS evaluation outcomes are in keeping with the exogenous origin of testosterone and its metabolites.
“Madge’s two-year interval of ineligibility started on June 28, 2024, the date his constructive pattern was collected however has been tolled since Madge retired on Sept. 20, 2024.”
By all accounts, Madge’s profession is over with him hanging up his gloves in retirement, but when he determined to compete once more, he must serve out the rest of his two-year sentence for the doping violation.
A 17-fight veteran, Madge went 2-0 within the UFC earlier than he left the group and ended up signing with the PFL the place he amassed a 2-2 resume over 4 fights. Most lately, Madge suffered a unanimous resolution loss to Neiman Gracie again in June, which was the matchup the place the pattern was collected that in the end earned him the two-year suspension.
Assuming he doesn’t compete once more, Madge retires with an 11-5-1 document with a profession that dates again to 2011 when he debuted in his native South Africa.
