With both MMAJunkie.com and MMAWeekly.com already touting anonymous sources that believe Thiago Silva won’t be able to fight Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 130, Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer has confirmed that one fighter from UFC 125 is still having his drug test analyzed.

An email from Kizer sent to ProMMAnow.com and other media outlets says that the following fighters were tested and all came up negative: Frankie Edgar, Gray Maynard, Chris Leben, Brian Stann, Brandon Vera, Phil Baroni, Brad Tavares, Jeremy Stephens, Dustin Poirier, Diego Nunes, Daniel Roberts, Jacob Volkmann, Dong Hyun Kim, and Clay Guida.

“We are still processing another athlete’s urine sample from that event,” Kizer said.

Soon after MMAWeekly broke the story that Rashad Evans would replace Silva against Jackson, Tatame spoke with Silva directly, who said he was not injured and had not pulled out of the fight. However, even with that response taken into account, MMAJunkie also verified that UFC officials were looking into putting Rashad in Silva’s place, though a deal was far from done.

Just off of Kizer’s email, it’s important to point out that besides Silva, Antonio McKee, Greg Soto, Mike Brown, Josh Grispi, Marcus Davis, Takanori Gomi, and Nate Diaz are not mentioned. Kizer would not confirm or deny with MMAJunkie whether Silva was the fighter in question. However, Kizer told Junkie that Silva did undergo pre-fight drug screening.

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