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Belfort on drug tests: 'Come take my blood ... but has to be equal for everyone'

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Vitor Belfort doesn't mind being subjected to random drug tests, as long as his opponents are being treated in the exact same manner.

"The funny thing is that everybody is clean, nobody do anything wrong. But when they started testing everybody, how many got caught? Forty percent? That shows that for the system to work, everybody has to be tested equally," Belfort told Brazilian reporters during UFC 184 last week, as translated by MMAFighting.com's Guilherme Cruz. "If they come test me for my fight with (UFC middleweight champion Chris) Weidman, they have to go test Weidman as well on the same date, same time. That's an equal system. It has to be fair. It's not fair that they test me seven times and only test him once."

With the UFC set to roll out a brand new drug testing policy on July 1 in the wake of a series of high-profile failed screenings, Belfort, who flunked a random test in 2014 prior to his originally scheduled bout with Weidman, is open to the idea of more testing.

"We know how the system works these days," Belfort said. "I don't think the athlete does anything he doesn't know, so I want them to test me every day. Come take my blood, my urine, but has to be equal for everyone."

After three failed attempts, Belfort will finally (cross your fingers) get a shot at Weidman's middleweight crown at UFC 187 in May.

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