{"id":469338,"date":"2026-02-12T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469338\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:11:07","slug":"ufc-to-part-ways-with-jailton-almeida-after-recent-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469338\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC to part ways with Jailton Almeida after recent loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jailton Almeida is headed down a division, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to matter.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC has notified the heavyweight contender Almeida (22-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) that it plans to part ways with him following his UFC Fight Night 266 unanimous decision loss Saturday to Rizvan Kuniev (14-3-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC), with official written confirmation expected in the coming days, multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed to MMA Junkie on Wednesday. Brazilian reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/laertevianamma\/status\/2021753221878849824?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Laerte Viana;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Laerte Viana<\/a> first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Almeida, 34, was largely dominant for much of his UFC tenure. However, back-to-back losses and a lackluster streak of fights result in what will be his UFC pink slip. His only UFC losses came against Kuniev, Alexander Volkov, and Curtis Blaydes.<\/p>\n<p>UFC wins for Almeida include Danilo Marques, Parker Porter, Anton Turkalj, Shamil Abdurakhimov, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Derrick Lewis, Alexandr Romanov, and Serghei Spivac.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/02\/11\/ufc-news-jailton-almeida-released-from-roster\/88634333007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC notifies heavyweight contender of departure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC notifies heavyweight contender of departure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jailton Almeida is headed down a division, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to matter. The UFC has notified the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,2329,191220,638,1302,150545,82,640],"class_list":["post-469338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jailton-almeida","tag-laerte-viana","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-rizvan-kuniev","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}