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Good seeking damages from supplement companies over USADA violation

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Lyman Good aims to get even with those he deems responsible for last year's violation of the USADA anti-doping policy.

The UFC welterweight has filed two separate lawsuits against several supplement companies in pursuit of damages related to a number of claims, including breach of express warranty (or sales contract), deceptive acts and practices, false advertising, and assault and battery, MMA Fighting's Marc Raimondi reported Thursday, citing written complaints obtained from Good's attorney David M. Fish. TMZ first reported the news.

The first complaint lists Gaspari Nutrition, Richard Gaspari, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Jared Wheat and Vitamin Shoppe as the defendants, with the second including Millennium Sport Technologies and Matthew Masuda.

Good's suits are related to a six-month USADA-sanctioned ban in relation to a flagged out-of-competition sample collected by the UFC's anti-doping partner last October. The 32-year-old tested positive for 1-androstenedione, leading to his removal from a date with Belal Muhammad at UFC 205 in his native New York.

His penance now served, Good alleges the illicit substance was found in a Gaspari product tested in the USADA lab, hence the complaint against the company and Wheat - the owner of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals who reportedly became Gaspari co-head last year.

According to Raimondi, Gaspari was sued by ThermoLife in 2012 for the alleged inclusion of steroids in dietary supplements.

Good's first complaint also alleges Vitamin Shoppe sold the tainted Gaspari product, knowing it had been tampered with.

As for the second complaint, the former Bellator champ alleges he took a Millenium product that also contained the substance for which he was flagged, despite the company's claims to the contrary.

Good has gotten back in the saddle since serving his suspension, dropping a razor-close split decision to Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos at UFC on FOX 25 this past July.

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