{"id":66252,"date":"2025-10-08T04:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/66252\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:01:06","slug":"conor-mcgregor-accepts-18-month-ban-for-ufc-anti-doping-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/66252\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor accepts 18-month ban for UFC anti-doping violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor has accepted an 18-month ban for a violation of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish fighter missed three attempted biological sample collections within a 12-month period in 2024, according to Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His suspension began on September 20 2024 and will conclude on March 20 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The CSAD noted McGregor was recovering from an injury and not preparing for an upcoming fight at the time of the three missed tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taking his cooperation and circumstances into account, the CSAD said it reduced the standard 24-month sanction by six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McGregor recently claimed he had signed to fight on next year\u2019s UFC White House card, scheduled for June 14 \u2013 the 80th birthday of US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Saturday, UFC president Dana White denied those claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McGregor has not fought since July 2021 when he suffered a badly broken leg in a fight against Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor has accepted an 18-month ban for a violation of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy. The Irish fighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4641,4021,17713,4022,4023,112],"class_list":["post-66252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mcgregor","tag-place-europe","tag-place-northern-ireland","tag-place-republic-of-ireland","tag-place-uk","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}