Final Combating Championship (UFC) continues to make room on its huge roster of blended martial arts (MMA) expertise.
UFC Roster Watch revealed as we speak (Tues., Oct. 29, 2024) that seven extra fighters had been launched from their respective contracts and/or the promotion determined to not lengthen them. 4 of the seven fighters launched got here from UFC Vegas 99.
The fighters who misplaced their spot on the roster embrace:
- Jessica Penne
- Robelis Despaigne
- Matheus Nicolau
- Vinicius Salvador
- Tamires Vidal
- Jesse Butler
- Charalampos Grigoriou
The largest head-scratcher on the record is Nicolau, who’s at present a Prime 10 Flyweight. Nevertheless, he’s driving a three-fight shedding streak—regardless that all three of these losses have come towards Prime 15 opponents. Additionally, he was half-hour late to the weigh-in scale forward of UFC Vegas 99. The Brazilian ends his UFC profession with a 7-4 file.
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Probably the most completed fighter on the record is Penne, who fought for the UFC Girls’s Strawweight championship towards Joanna Jedrzejczyk and misplaced through third-round TKO. Following her title shot, Penne misplaced 5 out of seven fights and had a chunk of her profession taken away on account of a USADA suspension. Penna went 3-6 contained in the promotion.
The final notable identify that obtained the ‘UFC axe’ is tremendous (overly) hyped Despaigne. The 36-year-old Cuban fighter got here into UFC dispatching his final three regional opponents in underneath 20 seconds mixed. Whereas Despaigne met some expectations in his UFC debut, knocking out Josh Parisian in 18 seconds (watch), his subsequent two fights had been dreadful as he obtained managed on the bottom for many of the fights. “The Huge Boy” went 1-2 inside UFC.
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