{"id":499866,"date":"2026-02-26T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:45:07","slug":"ufc-releases-gianni-vazquez-after-weight-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499866\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC releases Gianni Vazquez after weight miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today (Weds., Feb. 25, 2026), Sherdog reporter Tom Feely revealed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) newcomer Gianni Vazquez has been released following his unanimous decision loss to Javid Basharat at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/419237\/ufc-vegas-113-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-bautista-vs-oliveira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 113<\/a> earlier this month (Feb. 7, 2026) inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Missing weight \u2014 especially by that margin \u2014 is rarely tolerated by the promotion, and it appears to have cost him his roster spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Complicating matters further, Vazquez spent most of his career competing at Flyweight (125 pounds), making the miss at 135 pounds even more puzzling. At 31 years old, and after grinding out five straight wins to finally earn a UFC opportunity, his Octagon run may have come and gone in a single appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Elsewhere, former Ultimate Fighter competitor Nathan Fletcher has also been let go. The Liverpool native \u2014 and training partner of Paddy Pimblett \u2014 went 1-2 during his UFC stint. Fletcher (9-3) submitted Zygimantas Ramaska in his promotional debut but dropped consecutive decisions to Caolan Loughran and Rinya Nakamura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fletcher has already re-signed with Cage Warriors, while Vazquez now looks to rebuild outside the Octagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today (Weds., Feb. 25, 2026), Sherdog reporter Tom Feely revealed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) newcomer Gianni Vazquez has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,75564,702],"class_list":["post-499866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-roster-cuts","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499866","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=499866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}