Oh well
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) continues to make room on its massive roster of mixed martial arts (MMA) talent.
No. 13-ranked Heavyweight Alexandr Romanov scored a solid win at UFC Edmonton this past weekend (Sat., Nov. 2, 2024), defeating No. 15-seeded Rodrigo Nascimento in one of the most boring fights of the year via sloppy unanimous decision.
Today (Mon., Nov. 4, 2024), UFC Roster Watch revealed Romanov was released from his respective contract and/or the promotion decided not to extend it. While his fight at UFC Edmonton was atrocious, his release is somewhat shocking, even though it was the last fight on his contract, according to MMA Junkie.
That’s because Romanov came into the Octagon on a roll, finishing four out of five opponents, including a super rare forearm choke on Marcos Rogerio de Lima (watch highlights). “King Kong” then suffered back-to-back losses to high-ranked Heavyweights Marcin Tyubra and Alexander Volkov, but got back into the win column against Blagoy Ivanov (it was a bad fight, though).
Romanov ends his UFC career with a 7-3 record, losing three of his last five fights.
The 33-year-old fighter from Moldova had a ton of hype throughout his run, and at times, he looked incredible. However, in the last few fights, he came into the fights out of shape and heavy.
To quote UFC CEO, Dana White … “PFL should pick him up.”
Wtf he aint that bad lol. He won me money last Saturday!
round 1 was so/so, then 2 and 3 looked like black beast vs francis
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Dam, cut off of a win. And at the extremely thin HW division. That guy has looked like he gave up after his first loss though. Definitely looks like was not training hard for the past few fights.
So they’ve gotten rid of Romanov, Karl Williams and Robelis Despaigne from the HW division within the last few weeks. The first two had winning records there too.