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USADA suspends Chi Lewis-Parry for failed drug tests, ‘falsified evidence’ under UFC policy

Kickboxer Chi Lewis-Parry’s UFC aspirations have taken a big hit after he was slapped with a four-year suspension.

On Friday, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency handed a four-year suspension to kickboxer [autotag]Chi Lewis-Parry[/autotag] for multiple violations of the UFC anti-doping policy.

Lewis-Parry, 37, never has competed in the UFC, but he’s stated his intentions to eventually fight for promotion and thus had entered its USADA-administered drug testing pool.

Lewis-Parry, who’s from  Surrey, U.K., made headlines earlier this year for saying former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will “never ever be, ever, a good man” because of his past transgressions.

The ruling against Lewis-Parry was handed down by USADA on the recommendation of an independent arbitrator after a Nov. 10 hearing. The out-of-competition tests in question were conducted on Sept. 12 and Sept. 19 of last year.

According to USADA, Lewis-Parry tested positive for the following substances:

  • Drostanolone and its metabolites 2α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one and 2α-methyl-5α-androstan-3β,17β-diol
  • Stanozolol metabolites 3′-hydroxy-17-epistanozolol-O-glucuronide and 3′-hydroxystanozolol-O-glucuronide;
  • Metabolites of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) or similar 4-chloro-17α-methyl substituted anabolic steroid

Additionally, it was determined that Lewis-Parry “presented falsified evidence, specifically an adulterated supplement, to USADA and the arbitrator in support of the athlete’s claims that the prohibited substances had originated from a contaminated supplement,” according to a press release.

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As such, although Lewis-Parry was a first-time offender, the arbitrator determined a four-year sanction was more appropriate than the two-year bans usually given to first offenders.

Lewis-Parry, who has achieved his greatest accclaim as a kickboxer in Glory, also has 9-0-2 MMA record. His most recent fight was a first-round finish of UFC veerant Fabio Maldanado this past September at UAE Warriors 13 in Abu Dhabi.

Lewis-Parry, who helped train Daniel Cormier to fight Jones, created headlines earlier this year with his comments against Jones.

“I just don’t think he’s the sort of person that could ever change. He is what he is, and that’s what makes him as good as he is. It makes him great,” Lewis-Parry said. “He’ll be a legend of the sport – no one’s doing what he’s doing. But he will never, ever be, ever, a good man.”

Lewis-Parry won’t be eligible for reinstatement until Nov. 1, 2023.

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Combat Rewind, May 8: GLORY takes center stage, but with some MMA flavor

Check out the best highlights from this day in history with MMA Junkie’s “Combat Rewind.”

There’s “Flashback Friday” and “Throwback Thursday” (and Tuesday, too, if you want). But at MMA Junkie, we figured why not expand that to every day?

“Combat Rewind” brings you some of combat sports’ best highlights from every calendar day of the year. It’s a look back at history, courtesy of the UFC Fight Pass archives, featuring stellar finishes and classic moments in MMA and beyond on their anniversaries.

So kick back and relive the following bits of greatness in the video above:

  • GLORY 21: [autotag]Maurice Greene[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ashley Epps[/autotag] – May 8, 2015
  • GLORY 21: [autotag]Giga Chikadze[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ken Tran[/autotag] – May 8, 2015
  • GLORY 21: [autotag]Chi Lewis Parry[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Demoreo Dennis[/autotag] – May 8, 2015
  • GLORY 21: [autotag]Raymond Daniels[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Justin Baesman[/autotag] – May 8, 2015

Fight footage courtesy of UFC Fight Pass, the UFC’s official digital subscription service, which is currently offering a seven-day free trial. UFC Fight Pass gives fans access to exclusive live UFC events and fights, exclusive live MMA and combat sports events from around the world, exclusive original and behind the scenes content and unprecedented 24-7 access to the world’s biggest fight library.

Chi Lewis-Parry still wants a piece of Jon Jones, but admits he’d gladly help beat his demons

Chi Lewis-Parry thinks Jon Jones “will never, ever be, ever, a good man” but says he doesn’t hate the UFC champion.

British heavyweight [autotag]Chi Lewis-Parry[/autotag] still wants to make [autotag]Jon Jones[/autotag] pay for his words but said he doesn’t hate the UFC light heavyweight champion enough to reject him if he ever wanted his help.

Lewis-Parry (8-0-2) and Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1 UFC) have had a frosty relationship stemming back to skirmishes when Lewis-Parry was part of Daniel Cormier’s training camp to face Jones. But, although the Brit admits he isn’t a fan of Jones as a man, he says he still appreciates his fighting abilities.

“Regardless of whether I like somebody or not, I can’t knock their talent or what they’re good at,” Parry told WWE commentator and former BAMMA presenter Andy Shepherd on the “People I Want To Be Friends With” podcast. “The guy’s a remarkable athlete. He’s got everything. Everything you could possibly want in a complete athlete, he’s got it. Even down to the negatives outside of the cage, he’s got that. Every great’s had it. Mike Tyson had it. Every great has had some sort of turmoil or trouble outside of their profession.

“I just don’t think he’s the sort of person that could ever change. He is what he is, and that’s what makes him as good as he is. It makes him great. He’ll be a legend of the sport – no one’s doing what he’s doing. But he will never, ever be, ever, a good man. And I would much rather people to be a good man than be a remarkable Hall of Fame athlete, because that comes and goes, and then you’re forgotten about. You’re just a number up in the rafters. But you’ll always be a good man through your life – and he’s not.”

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Lewis-Parry explained that Jones’ first concern after his well publicized 2015 hit-and-run incident that left a pregnant woman injured showed how the UFC star’s priorities had become skewed.

“We’ve all got little things that we do or people we’ve upset, we haven’t said the right thing, or we’ve done the wrong thing. But are you good?” Lewis-Parry said. “Are you a good person? Do you look at yourself and go, ‘I’m good, because you know what? I’ll do the right thing.’

“If I crashed into a woman, and she was pregnant – pregnant or not, if I crashed into a woman or a man – I’m not running away. Even if I didn’t have insurance or a valid license, or I was in somebody else’s car, I’m not running away, because that is the wrong thing to do. Especially if you know someone could be hurt.

“That’s not a good soul. A good soul would not do that. He was more worried about himself and getting caught and ruining what he’s got going on than he was about the lives of two people in that car, and one that hasn’t even had the chance to experience life yet. The shock alone could have killed that baby. I couldn’t live with that.”

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Lewis-Parry said that he would still very much like to face Jones in the cage one day to finally put to rest their beef that stemmed from abusive private messages he says he received from Jones. But he also said that, despite what he called his “genuine dislike,” if Jones ever reached out to him with a plea for personal help, he would answer the call and do what he could.

“Oh, 100 percent. Because if you’re humble enough that you can approach me and say, ‘Do you know what? It was a bit effed-up what I did, what I said. I apologize. But you don’t understand the life that I live. I’m constantly under scrutiny, under pressure. I’ve got this fame and this access to all of these vices.’ I can say, ‘You know what? I don’t understand that, because I don’t have that. But maybe manage the way you talk to people,'” Lewis-Parry explained. “And I would say ‘cool.’ Because, in the initial instance, I didn’t have a problem with the guy. I didn’t even know him. He brought me into this.

“So if the guy can hold his hands up and say, ‘I was wrong. Have you got any advice?’ Or ‘Can you recommend anything?’ Or ‘Do you know anybody that can help?’ No problem, mate. Because I don’t hate anybody. I don’t hold on to hate. But you’re not going to mug me off. I’m not going to have that. It’s a respect thing.”