U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has some rather rigorous ways of testing athletes in a variety of disciplines. This is why many UFC-ers where fairly timid once the multibilion dollar empire entered into a partnership with it.
Since then many fighters have changed in appearance and certainly the ranking isn’t remotely where it used to be in the pre-USADA days.
Latest edition of the Joe Rogan Podcast featured a tale of how Jose Aldo tricked USADA into, well basically, not giving a sample.
The first time USADA knocked on the doors of current Lightweight champion he wouldn’t oblige. As Joe Rogan tells it:
“First time they came he wouldn’t do it, he wouldn’t take the test because he said he didn’t know the guy. But apparently the way it happens. You know I’ve talked to people that have been tested, you know it’s super shady. They come up to you, they’ll take you in a room they’ll test you. It’s not sterile. They just like… We wanna test you right now. They’ll watch you when you go to the bathroom. Tim Kenedy said they had to watch him take a shower. They had to look at him. Like you get home from training and they’re like “we wanna test you” so they’ll put you like .. If you’re like can I take a shower they go I can’t take my eyes off of you.
It’s that way for a reason. Cheating”
Joe Rogan quickly added:
“So the Aldo guy, they’re trying to deport him, trying to kick him out of Brazil. Like literally trying to get him out of there. Saying you don’t have any authority to test us, you’re not even from this country. They’re throwing a kitchen sink at him. Then finally the next day they get him to test. He does the test then he trips and spills it. “
The JRE gang continues:
“I’ts like: Whaaat. And so he has to go and give them another one. And then what. It doesn’t mean anything. He didn’t fail. It doesn’t mean anything but these guys it’s all these guys like Wanderley who runs away from the guy. They go to his gym, goes I gotto go and takes off. He got f*cked more than anybody ever in the history of that. Because they banned him for life which is insane. “