News BREAKING NEWS Yoel Romero Out Of The UFC!!!!

Happy for Romero, he deserves the bigger checks.

And you think he is going to get that outside the UFC? There is the odd case, but UFC mostly pays way better than anywhere else. He got 350k just to show last fight (likely a PPV bonus too). Bellator won't give him anything close to that. Their current champ makes 200k less then that a fight
 
when push comes to shove ...

the guy with the most dirt on the other wins <Lmaoo>
 
damn missed this news. suprised af. he's still the peoples champ and one of the best eva
 
Damn, that is a shame. UFC is turning into a contender organisation. Hope Bellator picks him up.
 
Cost savings. He’s not gonna get another title shot, and his purses are too high for them to justify keeping him around at 43 y/o. Not saying it’s right, but that’s how UFC thinks now. It’s a business. For one Yoel fight, they can pay ten DWCS bums for fights
But the UFC is supposed to be the major league and not some bush league. You don't see the NBA get rid of its expensive top talent. If it did, it would no longer be the major league.

Gegard was willing to fight anyone at any time. Gegard is the very definition of a fighter, yet the UFC decided he doesn't fit in with the UFC brand or whatever direction the UFC is heading. I can understand why the UFC likes fake drama and wants to be the TMZ of sports, but how are ducking fighters better investments than Gegard? Am I so far removed from the average UFC fan that I just don't get the appeal of melodrama?
 
Remember earlier this yr JJ & Mas were making the most noise about pay? They're also managed by the Kawa brothers. Yoel is a big name but has been losing lately (usually super close fights vs whoever the MW champ at the time is). Wouldn't surprise me if UFC was sending a message (they can't cut JJ & Mas right now, both are big PPV sellers, Yoel is 43 yrs old)
 
Too bad, he was just reaching his Natty Prime
 
Bellator MWs shitting themselves now
 
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The yoel matchups in bellator I love Moose, Davis, Nemkov, bader (at LHW if he's game), even Machida or Salter.
Hope they sign him.
 
Yoel is the real MW champ, and everyone who knows anything about fighting knows it
 
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Don't even know if money needed to change hands. He was a pretty good company guy getting up there in age, who had a rash of lackluster fights, and probably made a decent amount of money.
A rash of lack luster fights?

His fights with Costa, Whitaker twice were amazing. Wildly entertaining. Knockdowns, changing of momentum. The decisions all could have gone either way, they were close fights. He KO'd Rockhold brutally.

He had a bad fight with Izzy, but let's not re-write history.
 
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