Ex-PFL champion suspended for 1 year by USADA after failed drug test

PFL heavyweight Bruno Cappelozza won’t fight again until 2025 after being suspended for one year by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, Report informs via MMA Fighting.

This is actually the second suspension the Brazilian has faced for using banned substances after he was hit with a nine-month sanction by the Nevada Athletic Commission in 2023.

In that incident, Cappelozza was busted for using drostanolone — an anabolic steroid — and his win over Matheus Scheffel was overturned to a no-contest.

On Monday, USADA officials announced that Cappelozza has now been suspended for one year after an out-of-competition drug test conducted on April 17 came back positive for clomiphene and its metabolite desmethyl-clomifene. Clomiphene is banned at all times for athletes and listed in the class of hormone and metabolic modulators.

The one-year suspension is the maximum sentence allowable based on the substance used.