A pair of competitors on the most recent season of Dana White's Contender Series have been suspended after testing positive for banned substances.
During a Nevada State Athletic Commission meeting on Tuesday, Francesco Mazzeo and Abdelah Er-Ramy were handed sanctions after failing drug tests in relation to their respective bouts.
Mazzeo was suspended nine months due to a positive test for the metabolic modulator GW1516 and its metabolites. He was also fined $750 and ordered to pay $157.04 in prosecution fees. Mazzeo, who suffered a second-round submission loss to Kevin Christian on Sept.