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A lot of people on the internet are saying that Brock Lesnar is still suspended since he retired without serving it out and he'd have to serve out his 1 year suspension if he unretires. This is true, but they are missing a key detail. Someone on Lesnar's team was smart enough to have this all planned out so that he'd be able to come back in 6 months if he ever wanted to.

According to UFC/USADA rules, your suspension gets frozen when you retire, but he had already served out 7 months of it and had only 5 months to go when he retired. This was by design, he intentionally waited and allowed himself to remain in the USADA testing pool as a suspended fighter until he got under 6 months, then he retired to get rid of the hassle of random testing back when he wasn't sure if he'd fight again but wanted to leave open the option. There was no point to fully serving it out because he was going to be sidelined for a mandatory 6 month waiting period anyway. So yeah, he'll serve out the last 5 months of his suspension at the same time that he's doing the mandatory 6 month wait while being tested.