Tom Lawlor is ‘happy’ to leave USADA testing pool following UFC release

Tom Lawlor claims that he is happy to leave the USADA testing pool following his UFC release.

Lawlor was released by the UFC last week after serving one year and ten months of a two-year USADA ban. Although he admitted he was shocked by the news of his release, he plans to approach his new free agency in an optimistic fashion.

“You mentioned me having some difficult news lately, but I’m not choosing to look at it that way, I’m choosing to look at it as opening the door to many other opportunities that hopefully come my way,” Lawlor told Luke Thomas on the latest episode of The MMA Hour. “I was with the UFC for a long time, and as you mentioned, I had some difficult news, I was let go one week…