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Evans-Smith fails drug test

Jon Jones isn’t the only one in trouble this week. The camp of women’s bantamweight fighter Ashley Evans-Smith was recently notified of her failed drug test.

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Chris Palmquist
January 7, 2015 · 1 min read
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Jon Jones isn’t the only one in trouble this week. The camp of women’s bantamweight fighter Ashley Evans-Smith was recently notified of her failed drug test:

Manager Mike McLeish first learned that his client, Ashlee Evans-Smith, had failed a drug test when a UFC executive called him.

He’s still waiting to hear from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which oversaw Evans-Smith’s fight against Raquel Pennington at this past month’s UFC 181.

We have no idea what they’re talking about, he told MMAjunkie.

McLeish said UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby called this past week to report the commission allegedly found a diuretic in Evans-Smith’s system following her fight, which ended in a first-round submission loss.

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