{"id":317750,"date":"2025-11-30T03:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317750\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:11:05","slug":"sheldon-who-mma-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317750\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon Who? | MMA Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/10\/12\/23915132\/ufc-hires-sadam-hussein-interrogator-to-oversee-drug-testing-in-2024-garbage-trash-usada-narrative\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drug testing program<\/a> is nothing to mess around with, even if you\u2019re a fighter who hasn\u2019t competed in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, a member of the MMA community did a little digging into <a href=\"https:\/\/ufcantidoping.com\/tests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC\u2019s anti-doping database<\/a> and uncovered something very odd. According to 2025\u2019s database, a drug test was administered to a fighter who hasn\u2019t fought inside of the Octagon since 2016. That\u2019s right, 2016!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So who is this mystery man?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s none other than Sheldon Westcott. The now 41-year-old Canadian fighter competed on The Ultimate Fighter: Nations season back in 2014 and earned himself a spot in the finale. Westcott went on to lose the final matchup to Elias Theodorou, but his efforts still earned him additional UFC appearances. Westcott went 1-1 over his next two trips to the Octagon before pulling out of a fight in Dec. 2017 and never being heard from again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the database proof below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So why exactly is UFC\u2019s drug-testing agency still checking up on Westcott?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To be honest, it doesn\u2019t make much sense. It\u2019s not like Westcott is going to plot some sort of comeback at the age of 41. It also doesn\u2019t make sense why the promotion would waste time and money testing a fighter who hasn\u2019t fought since Jan. 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) drug testing program is nothing to mess around with, even if you\u2019re a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-317750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}