At the One Fight Night 17 event, Ellis Barboza won against rival Thongpoon PK Saenchai. It was the Ellis Barboza match against Thai boxers. He won the technical knockout in the third round, when the referee said the two boxers were too different.
However, less than 2 months after that victory, Ellis Barboza was determined by the Organizing Committee of One Championship to use doping. His test model after the One Fight Night 17 event gave a positive result with a banned substance. That also means that Barboza was deprived of victory. The match turned into no recognition of results.
Besides being deprived of victory, Ellis Barboza also has to receive a 6 -month ban from ONE Championship. This will seriously affect the plan to play on the British land of Barboza, who is expected to advance in the future like a compatriot Jonathan Hagger.
At the present time, One Championship is one of the professional martial arts awards that applies the test sanctions, and is very strictly punished for the acts of using banned substances. It is also done in recent years at many leading martial arts playgrounds such as UFC, Rizin, PFL or Bellator.
In Vietnam, one of the pioneering professional martial arts awards applied the doping test is Lion Championship. This provision has been added to the charter of the Vietnam Professional MMA championship since 2023, and maintained in the following years.