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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is making room on its roster.

UFC Roster Watch revealed today (Mon., Oct. 7, 2024) that three fighters have been released from their UFC contracts. Whether for numerous losses or they ran of fights on their contracts, the promotion chose not to re-sign them.

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The biggest name on the list is Ovince Saint Preux, who just got submitted in the first round at UFC 307 this past weekend in Salt Lake City.

Saint Preux (27-18) ends his UFC run with a 15-13 record and tied in third with most Performance of the Night bonuses in UFC history (7). He fought for the interim UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against Jon Jones back at UFC 197 in 2016, losing a unanimous decision. “OSP” has the most Von Flue choke submissions in UFC history (4), and one of his biggest highlights was knocking out Shogun Rua in 34 seconds in Uberlandia, Brazil.

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Karl Williams (10-2) also got released, which makes no sense. The Heavyweight fighter won a contract on season six of Contender Series as a hefty underdog and then went on to go 3-1 inside the promotion – all via unanimous decision. He lost his only UFC fight in his last outing.

Williams was not an exciting fighter, but he should have gotten a new contract in a shallow Heavyweight division.

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The last release was Brazil’s Kleydson Rodrigues (8-4). Rodrigues received a contract from season five of Contender Series after he defeated Santo Curatolo. “KR” ended up going 1-3 inside the promotion, with his only win coming against Shannon Ross via knockout. He missed weight twice, and one of those weight misses caused a fight cancelation.

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Kayla Harrison dealt with medical issues prior to UFC 307.

Harrison scored her second Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) win at UFC 307 last weekend (Sat., Oct. 5, 2024) when she defeated No. 2 ranked Women’s Bantamweight Ketlen Vieira inside Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

New champion Julianna Pena was not impressed.

The former two-time Olympic gold medalist was not as dominant as she was in her UFC debut when she demolished Holly Holm; however, some medical issues before the fight could have contributed to her performance.

“I’m still learning. I’m still growing. I feel like there’s a lot of room for improvement for me. It definitely wasn’t my best night in the cage. There were a lot of things that happened,” Harrison told TMZ Sports. “You know, I don’t like to make excuses. I had to go to the hospital the week before I was like peeing blood and there was some stuff going on. So, I don’t like to make excuses, but I definitely wasn’t my best inside the cage Saturday night. And I know I can be better and grow from it.”

Harrison didn’t reveal why she was peeing blood, but it doesn’t help that she is cutting a lot of weight to make the Women’s Bantamweight limit of 136 lbs. The 34-year-old also told TMZ that anytime she gets below 150, it starts getting very hard.

“I need to take a little time off because of the weight cut and the process,” Harrison said. “Do you want the truth? I’m just not built to weigh 135 lbs. Anytime I get under the 150s, it’s not pleasant. The first time was fear of can I do it? And this time, it was fear of like, ‘Oh, God, I have to do it.’ You know, like the anticipation.”

Even with the massive weight cut against her, Harrison makes the weight and performs. The question is, how long will she want to make the weight, especially if she captures the title?

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It was a wild fight day for “The Great Ape.”

Alexander Hernandez got back into the win column at UFC 307 this past weekend (Sat., Oct. 5, 2024), scoring a split decision win over Austin Hubbard from inside Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hernandez snapped his two-fight losing streak.

During his post-fight interview with the media, Hernandez revealed that he, his teammate Brandon Royval, and his coach witnessed a shooting in Salt Lake City a few hours before his important fight.

“On the way home for breakfast, I saw someone get shot,” Hernandez said. “My boy, “Rawdawg,” [Royval], chased down the shooter. Kind of crazy. I was like, ‘Dude, we got sh-t to do today. Bro, we don’t have time to play IceT on SVU; we gotta get to the f—king hotel.’

Hernandez explained more of the story when asked.

“Dude, I just copped an avocado toast, and I was walking home, back to the hotel; we turn this corner, and we hear, like, five shots rattle off,” Hernandez said. “Brandon loves to yell gunshots. I’m like, it could be f—king anything. He’s like, ‘No, it’s gunshots.’ And I’m like, it could be. And then we hear another round. I’m like, that sounds a little gunshotty…and then these guys come panting like running past us, and Brandon goes, ‘Yo, what happened?’ He’s like, ‘Nothing, nothing, just run.’ Turns out that was the guy with the gun…and then [Royval], like a f—king Doberman, goes running after him. And I’m like, ‘Dude, [the hotel] is the other way, we gotta go the other way. And he’s gone.

“And so I’m like, ‘Bro, I’m warming up. I’m going back to the hotel.’ So I start going that way. He’s f—king on the prowl, like Sherlock Holmes, and he’s chasing after him. And then eventually the cops and Brandon saw this guy, and I went through my rollout and breath session, and everyone you know made it back together,” Hernandez concluded.

According to Fox13 Salt Lake City, the man who was shot eventually died, and the shooter, Farshad Hassan-Pouri, was arrested two blocks away from the shooting.

UFC fighters just like to chase down criminals … before title fights.

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