PFL heavyweight Bruno Cappelozza received’t battle once more till 2025 after he was suspended for one 12 months by the US Anti-Doping Company.
That is really the second suspension the Brazilian has confronted for utilizing banned substances after he was hit with a nine-month sanction by the Nevada Athletic Fee . He was busted for utilizing drostanolone — an anabolic steroid — and his win over Matheus Scheffel was overturned to a no-contest.
On Monday, USADA officers introduced that Cappelozza has now been suspended for one 12 months after an out-of-competition drug check carried out on April 17 got here again constructive for clomiphene and its metabolite desethyl-clomifene. Clomiphene is banned always for athletes and listed within the class of hormone and metabolic modulators.
The one-year suspension was the utmost sentence allowable based mostly on the substance used.
Cappelozza stays suspended till April 17, 2025.
USADA oversees the PFL anti-doping coverage, which was instituted after a rash of constructive drug checks plagued the promotion’s 2023 season.
It’s been a tough couple of years for the 35-year-old veteran after he received the PFL heavyweight event again in 2021, however then fell to Scheffel by resolution in 2022. He recorded a knockout within the rematch, which was then overturned as a result of constructive drug check in 2023.
In his return to motion at first of 2024, Cappelozza fell to ex-Bellator champion Vadim Nemkov by second-round submission.
