{"id":1759,"date":"2023-07-21T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2023-08-01T00:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:06:46","slug":"the-ufc-have-removed-three-fighters-from-their-active-roster-including-heavyweight-fighter-blagoy-ivanov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/the-ufc-have-removed-three-fighters-from-their-active-roster-including-heavyweight-fighter-blagoy-ivanov\/","title":{"rendered":"The UFC have removed three fighters from their active roster, including heavyweight fighter Blagoy Ivanov."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All of these removals come following UFC Vegas 76 which took place on Saturday, July 1st at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada and UFC 290 which took place on Saturday, July 8th at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to \u2018UFC Roster Watch\u2019 on \u2018Twitter\u2018, the following fighters have parted ways with the promotion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fighter removed: Robbie Lawler<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c Fighter removed: Robbie Lawler<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Roster Watch (@UFCRosterWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCRosterWatch\/status\/1681783025367932930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robbie \u2018Ruthless\u2019 Lawler (30-16 MMA) most recently defeated Niko Price (15-7 MMA) by way of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/robbie-lawler\/ufc-290-results-robbie-lawler-kos-niko-price-video\/\">knockout<\/a>\u00a0at 0:38 of round 1 at UFC 290 earlier this month. The 41-year-old proceeded to retire following the victory and is therefore no longer on the UFC\u2019s active roster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the post-fight press conference, Lawler said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, I\u2019ve had a long career. I\u2019ve had a lot of people help me get to where I am today. Without them, none of this is possible. I\u2019m blessed. I\u2019m grateful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fighter removed: Blagoy Ivanov<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c Fighter removed: Blagoy Ivanov<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Roster Watch (@UFCRosterWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCRosterWatch\/status\/1681783005130440711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blagoy \u2018Baga\u2019 Ivanov (19-6 MMA) had 4 losses in his last 6 fights in the Octagon. The 36-year-old had back-to-back losses against Marcin Tybura (24-7 MMA) in February of this year and Alexander Romanov (17-2 MMA) early this month.\u00a0 Both losses came via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fighter removed: Damir Ismagulov<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c Fighter removed: Damir Ismagulov<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Roster Watch (@UFCRosterWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCRosterWatch\/status\/1681782987090690048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damir Ismagulov (24-3 MMA) was coming off back-to-back losses against Arman Tsarukyan (20-3 MMA) in December of 2022 and most recently Grant Dawson (20-1 MMA) on July 1st of this year. Both defeats were by unanimous decision. Prior to those losses, the 32-year-old had won an impressive 19 consecutive fights in the cage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are you surprised with the latest UFC roster removals?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Share your thoughts in the comment section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these removals come following UFC Vegas 76 which took place on Saturday, July 1st at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada and UFC 290 which took place on Saturday, July 8th at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada. According to \u2018UFC Roster Watch\u2019 on \u2018Twitter\u2018, the following fighters have parted ways with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}