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Former UFC fighter Erik Koch receives 18-month USADA suspension for positive steroid test

Remember Erik Koch? He was a WEC prospect who was supposed to face Jose Aldo for a title shot back in 2012. Injuries to both himself and Aldo prevented that fight from ever happening even after it was rescheduled, and he never actually did get his title shot.

Fast forward to 2021 and Koch has just received a USADA ban after testing positive for the banned substance 3’-hydroxy-stanozolol, which is a stanozolol metabolite aka a steroid.

Koch, 32, tested positive for 3′-hydroxy-stanozolol, a metabolite of stanozolol, as the result of a urine sample collected on October 3, 2020.