Yoel Romero can be back in the Octagon soon.
The UFC middleweight contender was handed a six-month suspension by USADA on Monday, the UFC's anti-doping partner announced on its website.
The news of a shorter suspension than otherwise thought was first reported by MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani on Monday morning.
In December, Romero tested positive for a substance called Ibutamoren, a growth hormone secretagogue. The National Center for Biotechnology Information describes the substance, which is prohibited under the UFC's anti-doping policy, as stimulating growth hormone release "through a pituitary and hypothalamic receptor."
Romero, 38, denied knowingly taking the substance and has claimed all along that it came from a contaminated substance. USADA said in its release that it had Romero's supplement tested and Ibutamoren did indeed come up, even though that banned substance was not listed on the label.
LINK: Yoel Romero gets six-month suspension from USADA for failing drug test due to contaminated supplement