Report: Pierce, Castillo among ten released by UFC
The saying goes that getting to the UFC is the easiest part, staying is the hard part. According to a report, ten fighters have had their last fight in the Octagon, for now.
The saying goes that getting to the UFC is the easiest part, staying is the hard part. According to a report, ten fighters have had their last fight in the Octagon, for now:
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The UFC has been signing a lot more fighters recently (including a whole bunch of heavyweights), but that means it’s time for them to cut a bunch of fighters too and that’s exactly what it looks like they’ve done.
None of this is official, we’re going off the UFCFIGHTERSiNFO twitter account, which runs a ruby script over the UFC.com roster and publishes the changes as the UFC updates its website. When a fighter gets deleted from the website that almost always only means one thing, that they’ve been released from their contract. On that note, the latest round of releases includes 10 names. Steve Montgomery, Marcio Alexandre Jr, Danny Castillo, Mike Pierce, Konstantin Erokhin, Valmir Lazaro, Akbarh Arreola, Steve Kennedy, Hayder Hassan, and Marcin Wrzosek all appear to have had their UFC contracts terminated.
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