Wanderlei Silva suspended three years for evading May 2014 drug test

The saga of Wanderlei Silva versus the Nevada Athletic Commission has finally reached an end. At a long-awaited re-hearing on Wednesday, the NAC voted unanimously to amend Silva's lifetime ban to a three-year suspension retroactive to May 2014, granting the former Pride legend the right to return to active competition in the spring of 2017.
The commission also retracted the $70,000 fine it levied on Silva in its original 2014 verdict, reasoning that since Silva failed to fight Chael Sonnen at UF