Keeping a spot in the UFC has never been an easy gig. For every fighter that has become a poromotional mainstay over the past near two decades of Zuffa & WME-IMG ownership, there are many many more whose time with the promotion has ended far before they were ready to call it quits.
While the UFC isn’t quite the same brutal proving ground it once was – there was a time when two straight losses felt like it guaranteed a pink slip – a few new faces have been added to the list of fighters whose next time stepping into the cage will be outside the Octagon.