LAS VEGAS – If Wanderlei Silva decides to return to fighting, he won’t likely be doing it in Las Vegas.

Nevada State Athletic Commission officials today issued an indefinite suspension to the Brazilian brawler while also fining him $70,000, which represents 35 percent of an expected $200,000 purse Silva would have earned at a planned bout at July’s UFC 175 event.

The NSAC issued the order, which is the equivalent of a lifetime ban, at today’s meeting at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building in Las Vegas.

From the outset, the commission took a firm stance against Silva, who allegedly dodged a pre-fight drug test, and made it clear they didn’t want the fighter competing again.

“When you run from a test, that’s about the worst thing you can do,” NSAC chair Francisco Aguilar said.

After the hearing, Silva’s lawyer, Ross Goodman, indicated his client, who recently announced his retirement in a video that blasted the UFC (watch it below), will likely appeal the order.

In late May, Silva dodged a random UFC 175 drug test in Las Vegas, and that ultimately led to the UFC removing him from the UFC 175 card.

During a June 17 hearing, the NSAC’s sample collector and executive director testified about Silva’s actions on May 24, describing how the fighter didn’t answer the door at his Las Vegas home and then evaded the collector at his nearby gym.

Silva asked to speak with his manager but consented to the test, according to the collector. He then went out a side door in the gym. Attempts by the commission to reach him through his wife were unsuccessful, the collector and NSAC Executive Director Bob Bennett confirmed at the hearing.

UFC doctors prescribed Silva anti-inflammatory medication following a brawl with Chael Sonnen earlier this year, according to Goodman, and an X-ray in early May confirmed a fractured wrist. Goodman initially said Silva began taking diuretics to minimize water retention.

“He now realizes he should have submitted to drug tests,” Goodman said at the time.

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