Paulo Costa has an upcoming match this Saturday, August 20th against the returning former middleweight champion Luke Rockhold as the co-main event on the UFC 278 card, Usman vs. Edwards.
Costa had some harsh words for USADA at the official weigh-ins today. Saying, “F**k USADA” while carrying his bottle that says “SECRET JUICE” on it. We can only speculate what is inside. But we are more than sure it is just water. Costa was saying this in a reaction to USADA coming to his room and testing him at 6am while he was cutting weight, and dehydrated.
Paulo in the past has received many criticisms from fighters as to if he is doping or not. The most recent coming from the current middleweight champ Israel Adesanya, referring to him as a “Juicy Boy” on his FREESTYLEBENDER youtube channel. Israel referred many times to Costa being on PEDs during the build up to their UFC 253 fight.
Paulo has been suspended by USADA for 6 months in the past due to receiving intravenous infusions in 2017 on two separate occasions. This resulted from Paulo receiving an IV of more than 100 mL in a 12 hour period after making weight for his fights on the cards of UFC 212 vs. Oluwale Bamgbose, and UFC 217 vs. Johnny Hendricks. The substances that he was caught using were some medication for his stomach and a saline solution. To prevent this, Paulo only would have needed to get an exemption from the commission to us the IV solution for these substances.
Paulo, regardless of the allegations against him is one of the most entertaining fighters in and out of the octagon. After his loss against Adesanya, he has let his personality shine. And through the broken english has become one of the funniest fighters on the UFC roster. Your favourite fighter probably follows @BorrachinhaMMA on twitter.
