Juan Archuleta said T.J. Dillashaw’s USADA violation has created a “stigma” surrounding their team, that everyone uses performance-enhancing drugs — which, Archuleta assured, is not the case.
‘The Spaniard,’ who meets Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 222, trains with Dillashaw, a former UFC bantamweight champion, at The Treigning Lab in California. The gym is also home to the likes of Cub Swanson and Joe Stevenson.
Dillashaw tested positive for EPO in a USADA drug test administered prior to a first-round loss to Henry Cejudo in January. USADA suspended Dillashaw two years. Dillashaw relinquished his 135-pound title before he received his official suspension, but most certainly would have been stripped of it had he not made the decision himself.