{"id":233699,"date":"2025-10-23T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233699\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:03:09","slug":"danny-barlow-released-from-ufc-days-after-last-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233699\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Barlow released from UFC days after last fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) prospect Danny Barlow \u2014 who has competed at both Welterweight and Middleweight \u2014 has been removed from the UFC\u2019s active roster just days after competing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/omgitsfeely\/status\/1981095955509497875\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sherdog\u2019s Tom Feely<\/a>. That means he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-roster-watch-cuts-tracker-free-agent-aquisitions-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been released<\/a> from his respective contract, and\/or the promotion decided not to extend it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barlow (9-2) earned his UFC ticket in emphatic fashion, knocking out Raheam Forest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/9\/26\/23887241\/ufc-contender-series-results-live-stream-play-by-play-updates-season-7-ep-8-barlow-forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under two minutes<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/9\/26\/23887241\/ufc-contender-series-results-live-stream-play-by-play-updates-season-7-ep-8-barlow-forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contender Series<\/a>. He followed that up with an explosive UFC debut, battering and finishing Josh Quinlan at UFC 298 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/2\/17\/24075885\/full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-298-results-ppv-espn-anaheim-barlow-knockout-quinlan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>) to announce himself as a serious prospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, the Memphis native struggled to maintain that early momentum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/9\/24216904\/five-pounds-three-fighters-miss-weight-two-badly-ahead-ufc-worst-card-of-year-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He missed weight<\/a> for his sophomore appearance against Nikolay Veretennikov and turned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/11\/24217827\/wrong-way-watch-confused-ufc-rookie-get-lost-walking-to-cage-octagons-this-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lackluster decision win<\/a>, then suffered a knockout loss to Sam Patterson in his third Octagon outing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/1\/24375732\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-vegas-103-results-espn-patterson-knockout-barlow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At 30 years old, Barlow could easily return to the regional scene to rebuild momentum and earn another shot at the big show \u2014 or perhaps test free agency in a PFL Welterweight or Middleweight tournament next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nevertheless, Barlow exits UFC with a 2-2 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) prospect Danny Barlow \u2014 who has competed at both Welterweight and Middleweight \u2014 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,61417],"class_list":{"0":"post-233699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-roster-cuts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}