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Jon Fitch among 16 fighters released from UFC on Tuesday

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#1 ·
Former welterweight contender Jon Fitch was among the 16 UFC fighters who were released from the promotion on Tuesday.

UFC president Dana White also confirmed with MMAFighting.com that the following fighters were also let go: Wagner Prado, Mike Russow, Jacob Volkmann, Vladimir Matyushenko, Che Mills, Jay Hieron, Terry Etim, Paul Sass, Jorge Santiago, Mike Stumpf, Simeon Thoresen, C.J. Keith, Motonobu Tezuka, Josh Grispi and Ulysses Gomez.

Each fighter was coming off at least one loss in his most recent fight.
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Some big names in there, some of which I expect to see back in the UFC by the end of this year/early next.
 
#3 ·
Is this real yeah?

Sad to be Terry Etim and Paul Sass cut. Fight is a strange one as well, not his biggest fan but didn't think he deserved to be cut.
 
#14 ·
I think there is something else to this list, i mean there are some guys on that list who's win to loss ratio isn't too bad but have been cut.

I mean what is it now lose 2 fights and your out? there wont be many fighters left.
 
#16 ·
A lot of suprising names there. Mills, Sass, Fitch and Volkmann stick out the most. Mills and Sass will probably be back soon but I don't think we'll ever see Volkmann or Fitch again. Which sucks. I liked 'em both.
 
#19 ·
WTF......

Fitch is 6-2-1 in his last 9, he looked great against Silva and he got KO'd by a guy who has massive power and out grappled by the single best grappler in the UFC, Maia had his back for 3 full rounds almost and couldn't sub him, if anything it shows how damn good Fitch actaully is, how does this make any sense at all?

Contract negotiations would be the only way.
 
#27 ·
This better be something financial related.

If this was based off performance they can go **** themselves, Fitch just had what was unanimously considered his best fight in the UFC against Silva, and beat him and then he got dominated by Maia, but Maia is a monster at 170 and Fitch is still a top ten guy, come to think of it he probably wasn't making that much anyway. Dude was the second best Welterweight for YEARS except for when he lost to GSP and Alves was tearing through people left and right and even then he was still number three behind GSP and Alves.

A ******* guy like Robbie Lawler who stared at Tim Kennedy and Lorenz Larkin and isn't anywhere near the top ten gets signed but Fitch who was top five for years, just beat a guy like Erick Silva who was being hyped up as the next best thing in a FOTN winning performance and still is top ten gets the shaft. The message has been sent and the UFC can go straight to ******* hell after this Machida/Hendo fight.
 
#36 ·
Neither are guys like Gleison Tibau and Matt Wiman, yet they're still employed.

I get Fitch wasn't the most exciting to most but the guy just won FOTN and derailed a very highly touted prospect, and is still a top ten fighter, I'm hoping this is a money issue and Fitch comes back because there's no excuse for cutting him and letting a guy like Gleison Tibau keep his job.
 
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