In November of the past year, former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was pulled from his scheduled headliner fight against Kelvin Gastelum in Shanghai, China. All of it was due to his second failed drug test in the UFC, where he tested positive for two banned substances.
“The Spider” got some form of reprieve early this week when USADA confirmed that his failed drug test was due to contaminated substances, something that his team has been claiming since the news broke. In an interview with MMA Fighting on Thursday, the 43-year-old Silva was simply relieved by these recent developments.