{"id":713580,"date":"2026-06-03T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713580\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:39:09","slug":"two-ufc-vegas-118-fighters-earn-50-clean-test-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713580\/","title":{"rendered":"Two UFC Vegas 118 Fighters Earn 50 Clean Test Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/434947\/ufc-vegas-118-fight-card-start-time-date-location-belal-vs-bonfim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 118<\/a>, which goes down this weekend inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, headliner and former UFC Welterweight champion Belal Muhammad received his custom \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/428379\/27-fight-octagon-veteran-brad-tavares-recieves-50-clean-drug-test-jacket-ahead-of-ufc-vegas-114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50 clean tests<\/a>\u201d jacket from UFC Senior Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky for passing 50 drug tests throughout his Octagon career, which began in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Novitzky praised Muhammad for his professionalism throughout his career, as well as his insane cardio, which has become one of his biggest weapons inside the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Muhammad (24-5-1) will need to lean on that relentless pace Saturday night when he collides with Brazilian prospect Gabriel Bonfim in the main event. \u201cRemember the Name\u201d is currently riding the first two-fight losing streak of his career and is looking to avoid a third straight setback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Muhammad joins fighters such as Islam Makhachev, Dricus du Plessis, Merab Dvalishvili, Petr Yan and Brad Tavares, who have also received jackets in the post-United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition, 16-fight UFC veteran Matt Schnell also received his ugly jacket for passing 50 drug tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Novitzky added that Schnell started getting tested all the way back when he competed on The Ultimate Fighter season 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Schnell (17-10-1) is taking on Alessandro Costa, who accepted the fight on short notice. The 36-year-old Flyweight is looking to bounce back into the win column after getting submitted by Joseph Morales late last year. He is 2-4 in his last six fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ugly jackets or not, both Muhammad and Schnell are officially 50-for-50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of UFC Vegas 118, which goes down this weekend inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-713580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713580","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=713580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}