Lesnar vows to fight to clear name
Under-fire UFC heavyweight Brock Lesnar has come out swinging after it was made public yesterday that he failed an out-of-competition doping test only days before defeating Mark Hunt at UFC 200.
He released the briefest of statements through the Associated Press, simply saying: "We will get to the bottom of this."
The former heavyweight champion also released three letters sent to him by the US Anti-Doping Agency, informing Lesnar he had passed tests on three samples submitted over a nine-day period in mid-June - only days before the failed test.
It comes int he wake of the news yesterday that USADA had informed Lesnar and the UFC of a potential anti-doping violation by the 39-year-old on June 28, 2016 - five days before he defeated Australian-based Hunt at UFC 200.
The UFC had granted Lesnar an exemption from its own rule that stated a fighter coming out of retirement must inform USADA four months out so that fighter could be placed into the drug-testing pool.
He has since gone a social media rampage, posting several expletive-laden tweets as well as links to other foul-mouthed statements he made, calling Lesnar a "juiced up monkey".
