{"id":368439,"date":"2025-12-24T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368439\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:02:17","slug":"rinat-fakhretdinov-2-others-no-longer-on-ufc-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368439\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinat Fakhretdinov, 2 others no longer on UFC roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has parted ways with a trio of fighters, including a welterweight contender that hasn\u2019t suffered any losses in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple people \u2014 including a UFC official \u2014 confirmed to MMA Fighting that Rinat Fakhretdinov is no longer on the UFC roster. Fakhretdinov, who was 6-0-1 over his run with the UFC, including a 54-second knockout of Andreas Gustafsson at UFC Paris in his most recent outing, completed his contract and the UFC elected not to re-sign him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/omgitsfeely\/status\/2003258576522121679?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Feely<\/a> first reported the news on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 34-year-old also delivered a nasty submission of former interim title challenger Kevin Lee in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MMA Fighting also confirmed that Loik Radzhabov and Elizeu Zaleski are no longer on the roster after fighting out their deals with the UFC. Radzhabov, a past PFL season finalist, competed four times in the promotion, going 2-2. In his most recent bout, the 32-year-old lost a decision to Trey Ogden in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zaleski has one win in his past five fights, including consecutive stoppage losses to Chidi Njokuani and Neil Magny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC has parted ways with a trio of fighters, including a welterweight contender that hasn\u2019t suffered any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-368439","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368439","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=368439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}