More than a month before he fought Dan Miller at UFC 128, Nate Marquardt
went to the NJSACB and applied for a
therapeutic use exemption to be allowed to continue prescribed
testosterone as recommended by his personal doctor.
Marquardt received approval from the commission overseeing the
pay-per-view event, but only on the condition that he submit to a series
of tests both before and after the fight.
When one of those tests came back beyond the commission’s acceptable
limits for testosterone, the NJSACB denied Marquardt’s application for
an exemption. As it happened, the denial arrived the day before the
weigh-ins for his bout at
UFC on Versus 4.