David Branch suspended two years for failed USADA test

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Wild

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We now know why David Branch was pulled from his scheduled UFC Vancouver fight, and you won’t be seeing him in the Octagon any time soon.

USADA announced on Wednesday that the veteran middleweight failed an out-of-competition drug test, and he’s received a two-year ban after testing positive for the Growth Hormone Secretagogue (GHS) known as ipamorelin.

From the press release:

Branch, 37, tested positive for ipamorelin as the result of a urine sample he provided out-of-competition on May 24, 2019. Ipamorelin is in the class of Peptide Hormones, Growth Factors, Related Substances, and Mimetics and prohibited at all times under the…
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UFC middleweight David Branch suspended two years for failed USADA test
 
sparkuri

sparkuri

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He's too low on the totem pole for the good hookups.
 
jason73

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sucks for branch. this might be the end of him. he probably should have stayed with wsof . he would have been a favorite for the million dollar tournament
 
Rambo John J

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jason73 said:
sucks for branch. this might be the end of him. he probably should have stayed with wsof . he would have been a favorite for the million dollar tournament
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Yep, testing only at weigh in and fight night I think

He isn't popular enough to get a pulsing exemption or special treatment
 
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