{"id":246025,"date":"2025-10-28T09:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:33:12","slug":"roster-cuts-two-ufc-321-fighters-released-including-victorious-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246025\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster cuts! Two UFC 321 fighters released, including victorious Heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s been fewer than three days since the event concluded, and already two athletes have been released from the UFC roster. Per automated UFC roster tracker <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IoVkhZoTMS\" rel=\"nofollow\">roster.watch<\/a>, Heavyweight Hamdy Abdelwahab and Flyweight Azat Maksum have been cut from the promotion (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phre\/status\/1982950033348870464\" rel=\"nofollow\">Al Zullino<\/a>). Both men fought at UFC 321, but what\u2019s a little shocking here is that Abdelwahab actually won his bout versus Chris Barnett in a fairly one-sided affair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s more here than first meets the eye, however. Abdelwahab concluded his initial four-fight UFC contract with the Barnett fight and generally hasn\u2019t been that impressive. His UFC career began with a split-decision win over Don\u2019Tale Mayes which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/2\/4\/23585638\/ufc-heavyweight-receives-two-year-usada-suspension-two-positive-drug-tests-and-tampering-violation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quickly overturned due to a failed drug test.<\/a> His next two bouts were decisions as well \u2014 a win over Jamal Pogues, a loss to Mohammed Usman \u2014 and then he lost a point for illegal strikes against Barnett in a 15-minute slog. At the time of writing, Barnett is still on the UFC roster despite his two-fight losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Maksum, he suffered his third-straight loss at UFC 321 in a decision loss to Mitch Raposo. The leash is generally short at 125-pounds anyway, but Maksum didn\u2019t help his odds by missing weight and losing as a -500 favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been fewer than three days since the event concluded, and already two athletes have been released from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-246025","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246025","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=246025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}