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Paulo Costa fires back at doping accusations from surfing legend Kelly Slater

Paulo Costa improved to 4-0 in the UFC with another knockout victory at UFC 226 when he stopped Uriah Hall in the second round of their middleweight bout, but a sports legend doesn’t seem impressed.

Kelly Slater, arguably the greatest surfer of all-time, took his time to comment on post about “The Eraser” on UFC’s Instagram account after UFC 226, accusing Costa of being “juiced.”

”Didn’t Cung Le get caught because he looked suspect in a photo after a fight?” Slater wrote. “Costa makes Yoel’s physique look almost attainable.