Conor McGregor received an 18-month suspension from the UFC anti-doping program Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) on Tuesday.
His suspension will end on March 20, 2026, a little over three months before the UFC's White House fight card that President Donald Trump announced would take place on his birthday, June 14. McGregor has been campaigning heavily to be included on the card, which would be his first fight in nearly five years.
CSAD, the in-house agency that runs the UFC's anti-doping program, announced the suspension was for three "whereabout failures" in which McGregor missed tests on June 13, Sept. 19 and Sept. 20, 2024, and did not provide accurate information regarding his location.
"McGregor missed three attempted biological sample collections within a 12-month period in 2024,