{"id":702992,"date":"2026-05-29T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:30:08","slug":"ufc-removes-4-fighters-from-roster-including-18-1-bantamweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702992\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC removes 4 fighters from roster, including 18-1 bantamweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Four fighters have been removed from the UFC roster, and the list includes a bantamweight that lost only one of his six octagon appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Daniel Marcos, 5-1 with one no-contest in his career under the UFC banner, is no longer on the promotion\u2019s roster, MMA Fighting has learned. Lando Vannata, Jamie Mullarkey and Vince Morales are also out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Marcos (18-1, 1 no-contest) last fought in November, when he tapped out Miles Johns with a rear-naked choke. He has also scored wins over Adrian Yanez, John Casta\u00f1eda and Davey Grant in the company, losing only in a decision to Montel Jackson in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vannata (12-8-2) has been in the UFC since stepping in on short notice to face Tony Ferguson in 2016 and delivered fun performances despite winning only four of 14 octagon appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mullarkey (18-9) also had an overall losing record in the promotion sharing the cage with highly-touted prospects like Mauricio Ruffy and Nasrat Haqparast, and last fought in the UFC in a defeat to Quillan Salkilld this past January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Morales (16-11) earned his way back to the UFC in 2024 after winning five in a row since his departure in 2022, but went winless in four decisions since then against Colby Thicknesse, Raul Rosas Jr., Elijah Smith and Taylor Lapilus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four fighters have been removed from the UFC roster, and the list includes a bantamweight that lost only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-702992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702992","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=702992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}