{"id":83494,"date":"2025-08-20T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83494\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:43:07","slug":"bryan-battle-released-from-ufc-roster-after-back-to-back-weight-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83494\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Battle released from UFC roster after back-to-back weight misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Battle&#8217;s lack of discipline on the scale has been met with consequences in the form of a UFC release.<\/p>\n<p>UFC officials verified to MMA Junkie on Wednesday that &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter 29&#8221; winner Battle (12-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) has parted ways with the company after missing weight for the second consecutive fight at UFC 319. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/damonmartin\/status\/1958280213705752841?s=61\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMAFighting.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MMAFighting.com<\/a> first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After failing to hit the mark in the welterweight division against Randy Brown in December, Battle was forced up to middleweight. He could not make it work there, either, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-319-loses-yet-another-171953120.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:registering at 190 pounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">registering at 190 pounds<\/a> for a matchup with Nursulton Ruziboev, which was ultimately canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old also had another previous weigh-in infraction at UFC on ABC 4 in May 2013, missing by two pounds before scoring a 14-second knockout win.<\/p>\n<p>Battle is unbeaten in his pat five octagon appearances dating back December 2022, but he could not get win as consistently on the scale, and it cost him a place on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/20\/bryan-battle-released-ufc-roster-three-weight-misses\/85749349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bryan Battle released from UFC roster after back-to-back weight misses;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bryan Battle released from UFC roster after back-to-back weight misses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Battle&#8217;s lack of discipline on the scale has been met with consequences in the form of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,62919,786,785,3169,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-83494","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-bryan-battle","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-mma-junkie","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83494","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=83494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}