Michel Prazeres’ life changed over the past two and a half years.
The UFC welterweight, who faces undefeated Shavkat Rakhmonov at Saturday night’s UFC Vegas 30, was hit with a two-year suspension after failing two out-of-competition doping tests for exogenous boldenone and its metabolite in March 2019. Not being able to compete wasn’t his only setback since then.
“I’ve had many losses over those two years,” Prazeres said in an interview with MMA Fighting. “I lost my brother, and I thought more about him than in [returning to competition].