Yoel Romero has been awarded US$27.45 million in a lawsuit against a company that produced a contaminated supplement, which resulted in a six month ban being imposed on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) athlete. The amount was confirmed in posts (below) from Romero’s manager, Abraham Kawa and his lawyer, Howard Jacobs. Romero filed suit against Goldstar Performance Products at the New Jersey Superior Court in January 2018.

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He looked me in the eyes and said “ Ibra! I don’t do nothing! “ I told him I’d fight with him all the way through. Today we won and we won big, sure $27.45mil is a lot of money and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t. That was not what we expected going into this thing but as I told @yoelromeromma after, God is always good and always on time! So we stopped and he got himself a watch before we headed back home #frm

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Yoel Romero Awarded $27 Million in Lawsuit Against Supplement Company https://t.co/k0fScd30yf via @po_st

— Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs (@athleteslawyer) May 28, 2019

Romero was sanctioned with a six month ban on 4 April 2016, after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for ibutamoren in an out of competition (OOC) test on 16 December 2015. ‘Although Ibutamoren was not listed on any of the supplement labels, preliminary testing conducted on one of the products indicated that it contained the prohibited substance’, read a UFC and US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) statement.

Romero’s lawsuit named Goldstar’s ShredRX as the source of his ibutamoren AAF. USADA’s 2016 statement said that the supplement had been added to the High Risk List (HRL) on its Supplement411 internet site. However, ShredRX is no longer featured on Supplement411, and Goldstar is still selling the product. Its list of ingredients does not include ibutamoren. The Sports Integrity Initiative has asked USADA why Goldstar and ShredRX no longer feature on Supplement411’s HRL.