Yair Rodriguez Cut From UFC | Luke Thomas

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Yair Rodriguez is no longer with the UFC. UFC President Dana White released him on Friday after, apparently, becoming frustrated with his lack of willingness to accept fights, time off and a tweet White seemed to take exception to. Rodriguez hadn’t fought since UFC 211 when he lost to Frankie Edgar, his only loss inside the organization. They wanted the Mexican featherweight to face Zabit Magomedsharipov at UFC 227, but Rodriguez, for whatever reason, didn’t appear interested.

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  1. Wow!…well I said on another mma channel that I didn't feel this was a good matchup for him, but shit man! I can understand the UFC's point of view…I truly believe that 'the Conor McGregor effect' has made all this possible!…fighters now demand too much, even when they seem to have zero ppv power, also the ducking and being picky with opponents must be getting on UFC's managements nerves. However Yair himself has to share some of the blame here, plus his own mma growth will take a hit now that he is no longer a fighter in ANY organisation!

  3. Luke, thing is Yair had a fun fighting style and no one gives two shits of Leslie Smith. No one cared when she was in the UFC and no one cares now that she's out of it. Yair is kind of a loss for the UFC and the UFC is a loss for Leslie Smith.

  6. Man Luke is fast with the quick update. Appreciate the coverage Luke. I was wondering what was going on.

  7. Unfortunate timing and luck, however maybe fighters won't turn down a silly number of fights. (Not saying Yair did but the LW and WW division is a good example)

  8. Good riddance to bad rubbish. This shouldn't even be a story. It's not shocking at all and well deserved. The bigger story is how badly Mackenzie Dern missed weight.

  9. He shouldve taken the Zabit fight. Zabit didnt even look all that impressive in his last fight, couldn't finish a no-name small guy

  10. I love it. They should get back to doing this more often. He turned down 2 good fights & took a year off, gtfoh

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