To be fair, the UFC’s roster trimming habits have gotten a lot less harsh in recent years. It wasn’t that long ago that any fighter with two losses in a row could essentially consider themselves out of a job with the world’s largest MMA promotion. Fans and media would regularly speculate on which fighters were facing their last bout in the Octagon before each and every event.
In the years following the announcement of a class action lawsuit against the UFC by former fighters, and coupled with an ever increasing mindset of complete market saturation and domination, that culture of brutal fighter cuts has started to change.