Fighters who are likely to be cut in the near-future

DaPhreshness

Melvin Guillard. He's 1-4 in his past five, lost three of those fights by being finished in the first round, is riding a two-fight losing streak, looked flat in his last fight, missed weight for one of his losses, and his lone win came in boring fashion.

Shane Carwin hasn't competed in almost two years, has lost two in a row, and is now 38 years old.

Joey Beltran is 1-3 with one NC in his last five, and he just tested positive for steroids in his last fight.

Thiago Silva officially hasn't won a fight in three and a half years.

Any others that probably have it coming soon?

spartacus_

shane carwin is awesome. and he needs at least a farewell fight.

thiago silva won anyway, also he's exciting.

i think Guida should be cut when he loses to Mendes.

or better, make Guida fight Edgar. loser gets fired!

Mangasm

Cheick Cango should be getting the pink slip soon. He's boring and a cheater.

WarWest

Hopefully all of them

**** MMA

Ozpride

god damn I hope Guido gets cut soon although he may get picked up by bellator which would be even worse

Yesterdays_Hero

Alistair Overeem
Melvin Guillard
Lyoto Machida - If he loses to Dan I wouldn't be surprised)
Clay Guida - 3 fight losing streak (Hioki definitely beat him), prefers to run away

bandicoot

wanderlei silva. won 3 of last 10 fights.

just kidding... Wandy will beat Stann

juice64011

Unfortunately Robbie Lawler after Kos humps him to a boring UD.

PoloRidah

Palhares. He's been KTFO'd in his last two fights. One of which he failed his drug test.

spartacus_

Yesterdays_Hero said:

Lyoto Machida - If he loses to Dan I wouldn't be surprised)

me neither, i remember Dana saying it was a "must win" situation against Couture.

but Machida is awesome and sells.

juice64011

I think that Machida is safe but might be forced to move down to MW which is where he should be fighting anyway.

spartacus_

juice64011 said:

I think that Machida is safe but might be forced to move down to MW which is where he should be fighting anyway.

i would love if Silva moved up to LHW, then Machida could go down. win-win

GstarUk

The whole womens division, if liz wins tomorrow.

spartacus_

GstarUk said:

The whole womens division, if liz wins tomorrow.

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Pengu

Schaub after Johnson puts his lights out.
Palhares if he loses one more fight
Guida if he puts on another snooze fest.

zaksame

You would simply have to research the contracts,the guys making decent money [too much in the UFC's eyes] and are not winning will be cut.
There is of course that one variable ,like kissing **** usually gets you somewhere and hyping yourself in the media also seems to work.
Dana's talk abotu Fitch seems to fit Chael's bill,umm 2/3 losses,looked awful in his decision win,looked awful in last loss to Silva,makes too much money,,umm so how does he stick around?Kiss ****,runs his mouth to stay relevant yep check.

DaPhreshness

zaksame said:

You would simply have to research the contracts,the guys making decent money [too much in the UFC's eyes] and are not winning will be cut.
There is of course that one variable ,like kissing **** usually gets you somewhere and hyping yourself in the media also seems to work.
Dana's talk abotu Fitch seems to fit Chael's bill,umm 2/3 losses,looked awful in his decision win,looked awful in last loss to Silva,makes too much money,,umm so how does he stick around?Kiss ****,runs his mouth to stay relevant yep check.

Chael's one of the UFC's top five PPV draws, whereas the majority of people groaned every time they announced a new Fitch fight. I think anyone in the UFC that people are starting to not care about seeing, but who's been around for a while, is in more trouble than anyone. That's part of the reason I think Thiago Silva is on his way out. I bet he makes good money since he used to be such a top contender, but now I don't think too many people care about him. It's not like he's going to make his way into the top 10 or anything.

I've heard Dana lash out at Guida and Matt Riddle in interviews lately, so I gotta say that if they wanna stick around I think they need to win their next fights. He did also say though that he knows Fitch will be back, that he'll become champ in some second-tier promotion until he gets invited back.

ijosef

I don't think Chael looked awful in his last loss to Silva. He completely dominated the first round (one judge even gave him a 10-8), and although it wasn't too exciting, Silva did absolutely nothing. He was doing okay during the second round despite Silva's antics (grabbing the fence, grabbing Sonnen's trunks) until the massive fail that was the spinning backfist. You can't make a mistake like that against Anderson Silva because he will capitalize and finish you in a second... which is what he did to Chael.

Stefano

Criteria for cutting fighters, in order of importance: 1) Overall UFC Revenue; 2) UFC Record; 3) Overall Record; 4) Revenue in last 1/4.

StompGrind

Stefano said:

Criteria for cutting fighters, in order of importance: 1) Overall UFC Revenue; 2) UFC Record; 3) Overall Record; 4) Revenue in last 1/4.

If they were going off of revenue how would they even determine that for individual fighters when they are always part of a whole fight card. It's not like they are fighting just thier fight and fans are paying for individual fights.

KOOKORK

StompGrind said:

Stefano said:

Criteria for cutting fighters, in order of importance: 1) Overall UFC Revenue; 2) UFC Record; 3) Overall Record; 4) Revenue in last 1/4.

If they were going off of revenue how would they even determine that for individual fighters when they are always part of a whole fight card. It's not like they are fighting just thier fight and fans are paying for individual fights.

This is where forums and posts comes to help them know which fighter is attracting more fans and PPV. It is not too difficult to find out statistically, believe you me....