In the wake of a considerable number of fighters testing positive for banned substances, the UFC has employed the services of what is being dubbed as "the best anti-doping policy in sports."

"I'd say that given the independence, the transparency and the enforcement policies, it's the top in all of professional sports," USADA CEO Travis Tygart said at a news conference, which announced the policies designed to take out banned substances as well as improving athlete safety and performance.

As noted by Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, the UFC not only hired the USADA at the cost of several millions of dollars per year, but will also turnover their anti-doping program entirely to the agency. This would give power to the USADA to randomly test any fighter any time, and for any reason.

According to the Yahoo Sports report, the UFC will have no advance knowledge of who is being tested, and won't be having a say in what methodologies are used. The agreement between the Zuffa-owned company and the USADA requires 2,750 tests to be conducted in a calendar year.

"The UFC has literally removed themselves from the material operation of the policy. Questions about who is tested, when they're tested, what they're tested for, it's a year-round testing program [with] blood, urine, athlete biological passport, with CIR analysis, EPO analysis, human growth hormone analysis. They're all with us as an independent anti-doping organization," Tygart said.

Apart from the USADA, the UFC have also partnered with EXOS, and Fusionetics"”companies that would be tasked to educate the fighters on training, and cutting weight properly, as well as provide tips on injury prevention, and how to recover from them.

"If you take a really good fighter, a guy who is super talented at a young age, and you start them on performance enhancing drugs, it destroys them. It destroys you physically, mentally, emotionally"”every way a really good athlete can be destroyed, that's what performance enhancing drugs do to you and that's what we're trying to prevent," UFC president Dana White said.