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Main card fight scrapped from UFC on ESPN 49 due to failed drug test!
Walt Harris will no longer be on the UFC on ESPN 49 card. Photo via Instagram: (@thebigticket205)
Saturday’s heavyweight bout between Walt Harris and Josh Parisian has been scrapped due to a failed drug test.
Harris issued a statement to address the situation.
“My fight has been cancelled due to an issue that just came up with my most recent USADA test,” Harris wrote. “I believe this came from a supplement that I’ve trusted my entire career, but at the end of the day, it was never USADA approved. I’m a complete idiot for not checking prior but I’m definitely not a cheaterm,” Harris wrote on social media.
“I sincerely apologize to my opponent Josh Parisian. I was looking forward to doing battle with you in the octagon. Once I get [past] this, if you’re down I hope we can try again! I am going to face this head on while working with the UFC and USADA and hope to have all this sorted out in the coming weeks.”
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Updated UFC on ESPN 49 fight card
Main card
- Women’s Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Mayra Bueno Silva
- Middleweight bout: Albert Duraev vs. Park Jun-yong
- Heavyweight bout: Walt Harris vs. Josh Parisian CANCELLED
- Women’s Featherweight bout: Norma Dumont vs. Chelsea Chandler
- Lightweight bout: Ottman Azaitar vs. Francisco Prado
- Lightweight bout: Terrance McKinney vs. Nazim Sadykhov
Preliminary card
- Featherweight bout: Tucker Lutz vs. Melsik Baghdasaryan
- Women’s Strawweight bout: Viktoriia Dudakova vs. Istela Nunes
- Featherweight bout: Austin Lingo vs. Melquizael Costa
- Lightweight bout: Evan Elder vs. Genaro Valdez
- Flyweight bout: Tyson Nam vs. Azat Maksum
- Lightweight bout: Alexander Munoz vs. Carl Deaton III
- Women’s Bantamweight bout: Ashlee Evans-Smith vs. Ailin Perez
* Fight order and number of bouts can change.
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