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10th April 2016
09:51am BST
Mir, who has never been popped for any banned substances throughout his 15-year professional career before this incident, released a statement claiming he had no idea what caused the failed drug test. However, he told to Bloody Elbow that questionable Australian cuisine may be the reason.
Mir explained that while in Australia for his last fight against Mark Hunt, he may have eaten some dodgy kangaroo which could have caused the drug test failure.
"I couldn't tell you a single restaurant I remember eating at. I even remember calling James and saying 'do you remember where we ate?' I had to write down all of the places we went."
"And even if I could figure it out; let's say someone could document where I went. You're telling me USADA are gonna go down, and, on my behalf, try to test all the different meats to see if, well, you know, kanagaroos are wild and this guy wanted to beef em' up so he bought something that was very abundant - in the study that I did - oral turinabol could be bought in powdered form."
"You put it on the food and you bulk up your livestock, and you could sell it into the stores because now you get more bang for your buck. An animal that takes two years to reach maturity, you know, muscle weight, now in four months he's bigger than he's ever gonna be and you slaughter him. It's a common practice."
However, Mir didn't want to point the finger of blame on a marsupial because he maintains he has absolutely no clue what caused the potential violation.
"I don't know, I'm not pointing the finger any where, I'm just saying there's so many loopholes for me to sit there and go 'where did it come from?' Hell man, I don't know, I really don't. All I know is that I didn't willingly take anything."
