Urijah Faber wonders if PEDs will eventually lead to ‘attempted murder’ charge

When the news broke Friday of Brock Lesnar’s potential out-of-competition USADA violation — which was followed by Tuesday’s news of his UFC 200 in-competition drug test failure — Lesnar’s opponent, Mark Hunt, was none too happy.

Hunt, after all, had absorbed a 10-8 beating in the third round of his loss to Lesnar at UFC 200. The timing of the testing was such that even though Lesnar was tested out-of-competition, the results didn’t come in until after the fact.

Urijah Faber, for his part, wonders what this all could mean going forward. Mixed martial arts is a dangerous pursuit, as “Cyborg” Santos’ gruesome skull fracture over the weekend attests. While Faber isn’t accusing Santos’ opponent, Michael Page, of anything, the sheer scope of the injury, coming at a time when performance enhancing drugs figure prominently in the news, makes the former WEC featherweight champion wonder if the timing involved in these drug tests could lead to …

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