The former UFC heavyweight champion had just lost to Stipe Miocic in his attempt to reclaim the belt in May 2017, then decided to waste no time with a quick turnaround bout against rising heavyweight Francis Ngannou in September. However, less than a month after the matchup was officially announced, “Cigano” found himself pulled from the scheduled UFC 215 bout after testing positive for a diuretic in a random USADA drug test.
It took months for dos Santos to successfully prove that he was a victim of a tainted supplement, and now he’s finally cleared to compete again.