Various media outlets are reporting that Califorina State Athletic Commission Executive Director George Dodd told reporters during a break in an ongoing CSAC meeting that Chael Sonnen tested positive for a “steroid” after his fight with Anderson Silva at UFC 117. Despite contray resports in the LA Times, Dodd said that the substance was not natural. He confirmed that the sample had gone through a second, more thorough test that had reconfirmed the original result. Sonnen has thirty days to appeal, with any appeal being heard in November/December. If he chooses not to appeal he will not be able to fight again until September 2011. This puts an end to UFC plans to have Chael Sonnen to again challenge Anderson Silva in an immediate rematch of their instant classic, something confirmed by the UFC announcing that UFC 122’s main event between Vitor Belfort and Yushin Okami will be Final Eliminator for the World Middleweight Title.
About Will Cooling
A Comics Nexus original, Will Cooling has written about comics since 2004 despite the best efforts of the industry to kill his love of the medium. He now spends much of his time over at Inside Fights where he gets to see muscle-bound men beat each up without retcons and summer crossovers.
