UFC lightweight Piotr Hallmann contested that the results of the Brazilian athletic commissions drug testing was erroneous. He said he did not know how it happened, but it surely did. The drug test comes after his UFC Fight Night 51 loss to Gleison Tibau in Brasilia in September. He was found to be positive for drostanolone.
Hallmann is now in his early stages of appealing the results by CABMMA. He said "It wasn't pleasant days, of course, but I can handle it. This I can say for sure. I never take this. I don't even know what kind of drug is it. It's even hard to find out what kind of drug this is, but I can say for sure I didn't take this."
Since the news broke out, Hallmann faced the media to clear his name. He said that he was sure that he did not take the drug end pointed out the incompetence of the CABMMA. He said the representative was sloppy in taking blood, both the act and storing of blood with proper labeling, when he was at the hospital after his bout.
According to him "Of course, when things like this come out and you are surprised by this. it's tough to take something like this and don't know about it. If I take this, I would know about this. So, I think they made [a] mistake. I hope they make mistake and it's not intentional."
With regards to the drug drostanolone, Hallmann denies using it. He said "It would have to be injection. I didn't any injection, especially in this period of time. There is no possibility for me that I take this and didn't knew about this."
Hallman cited a couple of incidents that will attest his reason for doubting CABMMA.
He said "Right after my fight when I walked back to my dressing room a very loud person who couldn't identify himself was shooting: "Doping! Doping!" and speaking in broken English. My coaches tried to figure out what the man wanted and finally it was clear that I needed to be escorted to a room where I was being tested, so like always I complied and gave my blood."
He adds "At that moment I was badly injured and was waiting for transportation to the hospital. All of a sudden one of the people that tested me at the event drove all the way to the hospital telling us that something went wrong with the testing but at that time I was in extreme pain as the medical team was treating my broken jaw."
"The man understood and saw that it wasn't the best moment to do a second test as I was being injected with some painkillers. So the man apologized for the mistake and just left. During that moment I didn't make anything out of this strange situation as I know I'm a clean fighter who always have been professional with my career and never used any steroids or banned substance for that matter."
"But now the whole ordeal gives a different perspective and I feel that those mistakes they are referring to might be the reason of the failed test. I'm wondering what kind of mistakes can you make if they already took my blood right after the fight? The first thing that comes to mind is that the way they collected the samples have been done wrong or maybe misfiled."
