Cyborg randomly drug tested ahead of 140-pound fight in November

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The former Strikeforce champion and current Invicta FC featherweight queen revealed on her social media accounts that she was randomly drug tested on Tuesday as part of the new system in place by the UFC. She is scheduled to complete on a November Invicta FC fight card at 140 pounds. A successful showing at that weight would bring her one step closer to a highly anticipated showdown with bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey.

Tonight commission came to watch my dance class! pic.twitter.com/rW2KCbzPER

— Cris Cyborg (@criscyborg) September 30, 2015

“Today in my dance class more surprise the athletic commission,” Cyborg said on Instagram. “After the new rules may have been the first athlete !!! “Equal rights for all athletes” let it go!”

Cyborg was also randomly drug tested twice previously in 2015, including ahead of Invict FC 11 and Invicta FC 13. She has not tested positive for any banned substance since her failed drug test for stanozolol in December, 2011.

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Karim Zidan

Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.