Report: 13 fighters released from UFC

[Wild]

Norrmally at the beginning of each month, the UFC does a purge of its roster and releases several of its fighters (or at least updates its database to reflect that). So it is on this 1st of September that we find out more than a dozen competitors are evidently no longer with the promotion. UFCFIGHTERSiNFO runs a script (then publishes is on Twitter) scanning any changes to the roster, so while not official, this has historically proven to be accurate. The 13 released fighters are:

Light Heavyweight: Hans Stringer
Middleweight: Dan Miller, Ildemar Alcantara, Tom Watson
Welterweight: Andrew Craig, Igor Araujo
Lightweight: Anthony Christodoulou, Yosdenis Cedeno
Featherweight: Niklas Backstrom, Aaron Phillips
Bantamweight: Cody Gibson, Royston Wee
Flyweight: Darrell Montague

The script also noted that TUF China's Wang Sai was pulled from the active roster, but that's been known for about a year -- he's fought 3 times since his last UFC fight -- so it otherwise doesn't count within this context.

LINK: Report: Dan Miller, Darrell Montague among 13 fighters released from UFC - Bloody Elbow

 

[Wild]

Sucks to see @Cody Gibson released, but good to hear from him that he completed his degree and is now teaching full time. He planned for his future after MMA, and hopefully a lot of others are as well.

 

[jason73]

Sucks to see @Cody Gibson released, but good to hear from him that he completed his degree and is now teaching full time. He planned for his future after MMA, and hopefully a lot of others are as well.

at least he is free of his contract if he should choose to make a come back in the future

 

[jason73]

miller, craig and watson would be good pick ups for bellator.i think watson will go to BAMMA though

 

[Lukewarm Carl]

Wow. I've heard of almost all of those guys. Most of the time I've heard of two of them and the rest are randoms from local shows.

 

[Pitbull9]

Watson was a bust. He was supposed to be this beast. Miller that really sucks. Sucks about Cody as well.

 

[Zeph]

Sucks to see @Cody Gibson released, but good to hear from him that he completed his degree and is now teaching full time. He planned for his future after MMA, and hopefully a lot of others are as well.

Releasing someone in September when they last fought in February is bullshit.

 

[OhWhopDaChamp]

Surprised Andy Craig made it this long. I told him the cornrows are bad hoodoo & he wouldn't prosper.

 

[dacofty]

Yet i still see no cut for Jessamyn Duke, why is that? I free ride on rousey's back it seems

 

[802kmighty]

Watson wasn't the best but he had shown improvement.His style was slow and hard to watch at times and I had thought they were going to cut for some time now.A few like Hans Stringer and Niklas Backstrom had been said to be the next big thing.
The one that makes sense is Anthony Christodoulou.