illegally struck in the face<\/a> by a knee which saw Nueraji docked points.<\/p>\n“Today I have been officially released from the UFC,” Crosbie confirmed on social media.<\/p>\n
“From a young boy who loved martial arts and fighting with a dream of making it to the big stage, to conquering goals most deemed impossible. <\/p>\n
“I saw the UFC on [TV] when I was 15 and said ‘one day I’ll fight there’. Zero regrets on this hectic journey.<\/p>\n
“It’s the hardest sport of all time and the UFC have the greatest fighters of all time, period. <\/p>\n
“I’m very proud of myself for everything I’ve achieved and also gutted it didn’t go well, but that’s life and that’s world class sport. <\/p>\n
“The journey continues and I’m excited to travel down different roads and explore different avenues.”<\/p>\n
After his most recent loss, Crosbie questioned why referee Marc Goddard did not give him a full five minutes to recover from the foul.<\/p>\n
Heavyweight Chris Barnett and lightweight Kurt Holobaugh are also no longer part of the organisation after their most recent defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Kiefer Crosbie says he has “no regrets” despite being released by the UFC. The 35-year-old Dubliner lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279953","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279953","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=279953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}