The numbers are as indisputable as they are shocking.
Ronda Rousey, the UFC's women's bantamweight champion and one of the crusaders for more sophisticated testing for performance enhancing drugs in mixed martial arts, has been tested seven times since the UFC and the United States Anti-Doping Agency began their program in July.
That is more than any other fighter. As of Oct. 28, the last reporting date, 146 tests were done on 84 athletes.
Vitor Belfort, perhaps the face of PEDs in MMA, has been tested just three times in the lead up to his Nov. 7 fight against Dan Henderson. The results are available here.
To be fair, part of the discrepancy is because Rousey is in the midst of her second training camp for a title fight since July 1, while Saturday's fight will be Belfort's first in that timeframe.
But still.
If there is anyone who should know the USADA collectors on a first-name basis, it's Belfort.
It's fair to say that if there wasn't such an outcry about Belfort's controversial use of the since-banned testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), his past positive tests for elevated testosterone in 2014 and for 4-hydroxytestosterone in 2006, UFC management wouldn't have seen the need to spend millions of dollars a year to have USADA test its athletes.
Belfort faces Henderson, a long-time rival, on Saturday in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card that will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1.
Henderson, who has never had a positive test, has submitted to five tests by USADA, or two more than Belfort.
Henderson was a TRT user, as well, until it was banned, first by the Nevada Athletic Commission and then by most other jurisdictions. But the 45-year-old Henderson, who is the oldest active fighter in the UFC, never had the physical body transformation that Belfort had.
Belfort's TRT usage and allegations of PED usage have been among the most prominent news stories in the sport over the last five to seven years.
More than a year after Nevada banned TRT, Belfort was granted a middleweight title shot against champion Chris Weidman on May 23 in the main event of UFC 187.
But the normally low-key Weidman nearly attacked Belfort at the May 22 weigh-in because he learned that the 38-year-old Belfort's testosterone levels were significantly higher than his. Weidman is only 30.
In September, Deadspin reported the UFC permitted Belfort to compete in a 2012 title fight against then-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones despite being aware that Belfort's testosterone levels were elevated out of the normal range.
Last month, veteran reporter Ariel Helwani booked Belfort on his popular show, "The MMA Hour." But when Belfort's wife/manager, Joana Prado, asked for assurances that her husband wouldn't be asked about the Deadspin report, the appearance was canceled.
That led middleweight contender Luke Rockhold to lash out at Belfort once again.
"There's everybody else and then there's Vitor," Rockhold said on a recent episode of Bloody Elbow's ‘Three Amigos' podcast. "It's a matter of how much he's cheating, not if. There's a lot of guys that cheat, and then there's Vitor. It's just another level. He's just on everything you could possibly imagine, and it's been that way since he was 19 years old."
Powerful stuff.
It's also potentially slanderous, because for all the hubbub, Belfort has passed all three of his USADA tests. While it's possible to beat every sort of drug test, USADA is the gold standard and thus should be harder to beat.
There are a lot of people in and associated with the UFC who agree with Rockhold's statement, even if they're not willing to be as public with their thoughts.
But for all of the controversy Belfort has faced, it doesn't seem to have impacted him all that much. He makes more from sponsorships than any UFC fighter other than Rousey, even if all of his money comes from companies in his native Brazil.
He's appeared in five world title fights. Only 22 others have gotten that many chances, showing that the UFC isn't shying away from him.
In fact, the UFC keeps putting him front and center.
He was the co-main event of UFC 187 when Weidman stopped him in the first round. And he was the main event in the five bouts he had prior to UFC 187, and he'll be the main event on Saturday when he faces Henderson again in Sao Paolo.
One has to go all the way back to 2009, to his bout with Matt Lindland in the ill-fated Affliction promotion, for the last time that Belfort wasn't either in the main or co-main event of a card.
Fighters, of course, make far more for being in the main and co-main events than they do in other bouts.
The only way it appears Belfort has suffered from his PED usage is by the hit to his reputation.
If one wondered why fighters, knowing the long-term risks PED usage presents to their health, continue to use the drugs, consider Belfort.
He's a great example that, in this sport at least, cheating pays.
The UFC brought in USADA to end that, and its usefulness is best judged over time, not a four-month period.
Still, it would be comforting for all involved if those such as Belfort with multiple failed tests in their pasts were the athletes tested the most often.
It's early in the UFC-USADA partnership, but it sure seems appropriate that fighters who have tested positive in the past should be subjected to far more testing than those who have not.
There are numerous fighters, though, who have tested positive one or more times in their past, who have been tested only once or not at all since the program began on July 1.
Nate Marquardt tested positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid, in 2005, and then was yanked from a 2011 card with elevated levels of testosterone. He has yet to be tested.
Josh Barnett, Ben Rothwell and Ali Bagautinov have all had test failures, but they've each been tested only once since USADA entered the picture.
Belfort, Marquardt, Barnett, Rothwell and Bagautinov have had eight testing issues between them, but have been tested only six times total since July 1.
Rousey, with no positive tests nor even a hint of one, has been tested seven times.
It might be the random nature of the testing, but it sure is odd.
Worse, it doesn't seem like Belfort's positive tests have had much of an impact on him or his career.
Appearances may be deceiving, but it sure makes it seem like cheating is the way to go.