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Costa has already accepted a six-month sanction from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for the prohibited use of the IV as he did not have an exemption to use it.
“Borrachinha” spoke to Ag. Fight and said the trainer involved in the leak has been cut from the team after “betraying” the trust of not only himself but the rest of the team (via MMAFighting.com):
“He was already identified and removed from the team. This person tried to send it to several people. It’s a tragicomic situation. He hurt himself a lot because he was cut from the team. He was part of the team and betrayed not only my confidence, but every fighter’s (confidence), I believe. I don’t know if a trainer can have the confidence of a fighter or a gym owner now because if he does that to one fighter, he’ll do to another. This guy has to be banned from the sport.”
Costa added that his former trainer was trying to get money out of him and that any confidence he had in him has now gone:
“He tried to use that short moment to hurt me and extort me with that video. He said, ‘If you don’t give me this amount of money…’ That completely broke the confidence and I obviously didn’t even try to negotiate because I knew what I was doing.”
Costa is eligible to fight again with his suspension and fines paid to CABMMA and the New York State Athletic Commission. The middleweight contender is now scheduled to meet Romero at UFC 241 on Aug. 17.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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