Josh Barnett (35-8) har inte gått någon match inom MMA sedan han blev avstängd av USADA under 2016. Han har dock under hela perioden hållit fast vid att han inte tagit något otillåtet preparat.
Barnett, som testades 14 gånger av USADA fram tills att det sista testet visade positivt, står fortfarande med bland UFCs tungviktare och i en intervju med MMAweekly uttalar sig Barnett om hur han tror att framtiden ser ut för hans karriär.
I’m not finished with it. I still have a lot within MMA that I want to do. There’s still a desire in me to go out and fight. I know that it is going to be a much smaller window for me in that there’s so many other things in my life. At the moment, I know the desire is there to compete, but the desire to structure my life around training camps and all that at the moment just isn’t there. I’ll get out there and spar and work with people, so it’s not as if I don’t train or still enjoy training – because I do very much – but to make that commitment in every way that’s necessary to compete in MMA, not yet. But it is still open.
Barnett gick senast match 3:e september 2016 i Hamburg då han besegrade Andrei Arlovski via rear-naked choke i tredje ronden.
