UFC newcomer Dequan Townsend has mentioned that intercourse may have resulted within the constructive check that earned him a six-month ban following his debut defeat in opposition to Dalcha Lungiambula final 12 months – a combat he took at three days’ discover.
Townsend claimed his constructive check for cocaine and fentanyl metabolites may have been brought on by “totally different sexual actions” within the build-up to his debut UFC defeat in opposition to Dalcha Lungiambula in June.
The middleweight, who took the combat at three days’ discover and later accepted a six-month ban from testers on the USADA, has admitted he was “hanging across the fallacious crowd” however insisted there are “hundreds of various ways in which issues can get into your system.”
Townsend steered that he may have come into contact with the banned substances by means of his day job as a registered nurse and instructed MMA Combating: “One of the vital widespread methods is [through the] mucous membrane.”
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“In case you sleep with any individual or interact in any sexual exercise with somebody who’s a person or who does what they do on the aspect or no matter, it might probably get into your system by means of sweat, totally different sexual actions.
There’s alternative ways it might probably get into your system. That’s a technique. However as I mentioned generally, it was three days’ discover…I clearly wasn’t conscious or further cautious as a result of I didn’t plan on combating within the UFC.”
The 33-year-old accomplished a drug rehabilitation program whereas serving his sentence for the substances, which aren’t labeled as efficiency enhancers beneath USADA guidelines.
“Me personally, I’m not a drug person,” he insisted. “I don’t discriminate, I don’t choose anyone who does medicine personally. What they do of their free time is what they do of their free time.
I took the lessons. I used to be aware of the data that was given to me, and I simply just about need to put the entire thing behind me.”
The third combat on the #UFCMinneapolis prelims sees newcomers Dalcha Lungiambula (@Dalcha_Champion) and Dequan Townsend (@tarantula_T) sq. off at mild heavyweight. https://t.co/cptdgpCXAk pic.twitter.com/FJ1haObJBx
— MMA Junkie (@MMAjunkie) June 29, 2019
Townsend took the combat on the final minute after a protracted marketing campaign to compete within the UFC following a seven-year skilled profession that included 17 wins by knockout or submission.
The Michigan fighter, referred to as the Tarantula, questioned the need of publishing sure drug check outcomes, arguing: “There’s in-competition and out-of-competition, it’s fully totally different.
You may check for sure issues out of competitors, and it’s not publicized and so they don’t think about it as a violation. That’s what I used to be instructed.
I’m undecided how that basically works, I simply really feel just like the in-competition assessments must be the one ones which can be launched, and people are those which can be actually essential.
Until it’s performance-enhancing medicine like steroids or different main conditions the place they shouldn’t be taken.”
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He bullishly steered that the publication of his outcomes would spur him on when he fights Bevon Lewis at UFC Raleigh on Saturday.
“Clearly, when it was launched, all people has their feedback, all people has their opinions,” mirrored Townsend.
“And I simply let folks assume what they need to assume. I take advantage of their opinions to gasoline me as extra motivation to beat extra obstacles, combat, be a greater performer, and simply get my hand raised.”
