Brock Lesnar Fails Another Drug Test
Bad news for The Next Big Thing and for WWE.
Things are now looking even worse for Brock Lesnar. UFC has been informed by USADA that Lesnar has failed another in-ring competition test. This most recent one was taken the night of his fight against Mark Hunt at UFC 200.
Whatever substance caused him to fail the first test showed up in this round as well.
Here is an excerpt from UFC's statement:
"The UFC organization was notified today that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has informed Brock Lesnar that his in-competition sample collection from July 9, 2016, at UFC 200, has tested positive for the same substance as his previously announced out-of-competition collection on June 28, 2016.
Consistent with all previous potential anti-doping violations, additional information will be provided at the appropriate time as the process moves forward."
You can read the rest of the statement at their website here.
Brock will have a full legal review ahead of him, so it's possible they can sort this all out. However, this puts WWE in a really bad bind. They'e been going out of their way to avoid controversy lately, but with the concussion lawsuit and Lesnar failing a second drug test, they're about to receive a lot of negative publicity.
This may force the company to suspend Lesnar and scrap his SummerSlam match with Randy Orton. However, if they suspend him within the next couple days for the first strike 30-day suspension, he could still make SummerSlam on August 21st. Though having him and Roman Reigns both on the show will cast WWE in a poor light.
This could spell the end of Lesnar in MMA, and sidetrack his wrestling career for a bit. We should know soon what WWE's response is to this second test failure.