update September 28, 2017 – MMAFighting now reports that Lee has been pulled from the card.

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This week Ariel Helwani revealed that flyweight Andrea “KGB” Lee has been signed to the UFC as well as is arranged to contend at UFC 216 on October 7.

An issue, very first increased by @dimspace on Twitter, which deserves further scrutiny is whether the UFC as well as their anti-doping partner USADA are bending the rules by this short notice signing.

The UFC has a commendable anti-doping program.  When new athletes are signed to the organization they have to go into the anti-doping testing pool prior to competing.

Rule 5.7.1 of the UFC Anti-Doping-Policy “ADP” notes that “An athlete who has not previously competed in UFC, may not contend in UFC Bouts up until he/she has executed a marketing contract with UFC as well as made him/herself offered Camiseta Paris Saint-Germain for Testing
for a minimum period of one month before his/her very first UFC Bout“.

Its not remove what day Lee signed with the UFC however presumably she did so at least one month prior to this bout.  even if not, however, there is an exception to this rule for fighters who are a late replacement for one more competitor with rule 5.7.6 having the complying with overriding clause

“The one-month notice period demand for an athlete subject
to Articles 5.7.1 as well as 5.7.2 shall be waived immediately where
he/she is named to a fight Card as a replacement for an Athlete
who was withdrawn from the fight Card because of loss of eligibility,
injury or other event not fairly foreseeable to UFC.”

The issue, however, is Lee has a previous prohibited compound infraction in Nevada.

Lee served a 9 month suspension after admitting to ingesting diuretics – canrenone as well as spironolactone at InvictaFC 16, a bout regulated by the Nevada specify athletic Commission.  The suspension had her sidelined up until December, 2016.

The ADP has special rules for new fighters with an “established as well as verifiable history of the Use…of a substance…that is classified as prohibited at all times on the Prohibited List“.

Both canrenone as well as spironolactone are indeed prohibited at all times under the present WADA Prohibited listing with the substances being listed under S5 as banned “Diuretics as well as concealing Agents”.

Under s. 5.7.4 of the ADP, new fighters with a verifiable history of utilize of a compound prohibited at all times “shall not be permitted to contend in UFC Bouts up until he/she has made him/herself offered for testing for a minimum period of six months before competing“.

The only exceptions to this mandatory demand are if the athlete had a Therapeutic utilize exemption at the time they ingested the product (which Lee did not) or if USADA decides to grant Lee a TUE for the product which presumably they have not.

In short, unless a USADA retroactive TUE is in location or unless Lee has been in the testing pool for 6 months it appears section 5.7.4 is not being complied with which reads as follows

A new or returning athlete who admits or has an established
and verifiable history of the Use, attempted utilize or Possession of
a compound or technique that is classified as prohibited at all times
on the Prohibited listing shall not be permitted to contend in UFC
Bouts up until he/she has made him/herself offered for testing for
a minimum period of six months before competing. At USADA’s
discretion, such athletes may likewise be needed to provide a
minimum of two Camiseta Barcelona unfavorable samples during the minimum six-month
notice period before being cleared for competition. This provision
shall not apply in circumstances in which (i) the Athlete’s utilize of the
Prohibited compound or technique was pursuant to a valid TUE or (ii)
USADA subsequently grants the athlete a TUE for the Camiseta Kashima Antlers compound or
method in question.

I have asked USADA, via Twitter, to evaluate in on this matter.  I will update this article if/when they reply.

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