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Iasmin Lucindo will be eligible to return to active competition in June. | Getty/UFC
Iasmin Lucindo has been suspended for nine months after failing a drug test last year, Combat Sports Anti Doping (CSAD) announced on Wednesday.
The UFC strawweight testing positive for the banned anabolic agent mesterolone in an out-of-competition sample collected on Sept. 24, 2025 in Feira de Santana, Brazil. That resulted in Lucindo being pulled from a proposed clash against Gillian Robertson on Dec. 13. Lucindo and her team blamed the failed test on a tainted supplement.
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“Throughout CSAD’s investigation, the evidence collected indicated that Lucindo Bezerra did not intentionally use mesterolone to gain a performance advantage,” read a statement from CSAD. “She cooperated fully with CSAD’s investigation, including submitting to a detailed interview and providing official government documentation from a Brazilian pharmacy where she obtained compounded dietary supplements prior to the adverse finding. The documentation indicated that the pharmacy regularly compounded products containing mesterolone and could not rule out the possibility that legal dietary supplements provided to Lucindo Bezerra may have been inadvertently contaminated with mesterolone.
“Lucindo Bezerra’s testing history also supported low-level exposure to mesterolone. She provided a negative sample in August 2025, as well as a negative sample in October 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, before she was notified of the adverse finding. The estimated concentration of mesterolone in her September sample was minimal. However, because she had already used up some of the supplements obtained from the Brazilian pharmacy, CSAD was unable to definitively conclude that the low-level adverse finding resulted from a contaminated supplement.”
Full Cooperation and Minimal Exposure
Because Lucindo cooperated fully with the investigation and CSAD’s investigation determined that she did not “expose herself to significant quantities of mesterolone,” the strawweight received a nine-month sanction that will conclude on June 24. Lucindo still faces separate punishment from the Nevada State Athletic Commission since her Dec. 13 fight was slated to take place in Las Vegas.
CSAD warns that “UFC athletes are instructed to avoid dietary supplements that are compounded by pharmacies, especially in Brazil, due to the potential of contaminants appearing in said supplements as a result of the compounding process.”
Lucindo has been victorious in five of seven Octagon appearances since joining the promotion in 2022. She is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Angela Hill at UFC on ESPN 72 this past August.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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