UFC flyweight fighter Alibi Idiris has accepted a one-year suspension for violating the UFC’s Anti-Doping Policy, the organization announced Tuesday.
Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD), which is the organization that independently administers the UFC’s anti-doping program, confirmed Idiris tested positive for a banned substance that helped him cut weight during the week of his most recent fight.
He is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Ode Osborne in Houston on Feb. 21.
“Idiris tested positive for the presence of hydrochlorothiazide, a prohibited at all times diuretic in the Diuretics and Masking Agents class of the UFC Prohibited List, from an in-competition sample collected on Feb. 21, 2026, in Houston, Texas, surrounding the UFC Fight Night card in said location,” a CSAD statement read.
“Upon notification of this adverse finding, Idiris has been fully cooperative with CSAD. Idiris provided information that he took a product that contained hydrochlorothiazide on Thursday of fight week to help him make the contracted weight on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, at the event’s official weigh-in.
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“Although Idiris has been fully cooperative with CSAD, CSAD is not suspending or reducing any period of his ineligibility due to the seriousness of knowingly using a diuretic during fight week and the advantage that he received in making his contracted weight. Idiris’s suspension began on Feb. 21, 2026, the day he provided his adverse, in-competition biological sample. His suspension will terminate on Feb. 21, 2027.”
The case is being overseen by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations, and Idiris’s win over Osborne is expected to be officially overturned and changed to a no-contest at some point in the future.
The 31-year-old from Kazakhstan got into the UFC in 2025 after being a finalist in The Ultimate Fighter 33 flyweight tournament. Idiris is 11-1 in professional mixed martial arts, with his lone loss coming to Joseph Morales in the TUF 33 finale.
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