UFC Releases Nate Mohr, Matt Arroyo

Nate Mohr Cut:

Nate Mohr has been let go from the Ultimate FIghting Championship. He was released shortly after his loss to Dennis Siver at UFC 93 in Dublin, Ireland. It has been reported that the UFC is looking to trim its roster by 50.

From Five Ounces of Pain:

Overall, Mohr is just 1-3 while competing under the UFC banner but it is believed that he could be brought back if he’s able to accumulate a series of wins outside of the organization.

He joins a confirmed list of recent releases by the UFC that includes Rich Clementi, Luigi Fioravanti, Eddie Sanchez, Christian Wellisch, Reese Andy, and Derek Downey.

Matt Arroyo Released as Well:

The latest fighter dealing with the scale back is Matt Arroyo. Arroyo's last action in the promotion was a split decision loss to Dan Cramer at UFC 94 in Cramer's professional debut.

FiveOunces:

Arroyo departs the UFC with a 1-2 lifetime record inside of the Octagon with a first round armbar submission victory over John Kolosci from the live finale of TUF 6 also to his credit.

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This was mostly just an excuse for me to play around with the formatting and see what could be done.
But, I also wanted to give some notice to Mohr.

I will play my game beneath the spin light.

by Eugene Schelfaut on Feb 14, 2009 6:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I like it.

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by Richard Wade on Feb 14, 2009 7:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

weird

It looked fine to me earlier but now the columns are all messed up.

by banter on Feb 14, 2009 8:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm. It seems fine for me.

I will play my game beneath the spin light.

by Eugene Schelfaut on Feb 14, 2009 8:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It’s messed up for me too.

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by Rundownloser on Feb 14, 2009 8:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It looks fine to me. (using Firefox)

by Richard Wade on Feb 14, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I got rid of the link column. That do anything?

I will play my game beneath the spin light.

by Eugene Schelfaut on Feb 14, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It looked better with the link column.

by Richard Wade on Feb 14, 2009 8:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I put the link column back and added Arroyo’s cut.
It tested fine in IE and Firefox for me.

I will play my game beneath the spin light.

by Eugene Schelfaut on Feb 14, 2009 8:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You're good

IE on my laptop, Safari on my Mac and the browser on my G1.

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by Blackout612 on Feb 14, 2009 8:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks.

I will play my game beneath the spin light.

by Eugene Schelfaut on Feb 14, 2009 8:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Reese Andy performed so gun shy against Matt Hammill at Ultimate 2008 that I am surprised that UFC management had to mull it over this long to release him. He should have been released the very next day. A much hungrier fighter deserves the roster space this this Andy guy was taking up.

by mattio on Feb 14, 2009 8:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Actually Reese Andy may have been released the next day. The article detailing his release mentioned (quoting FiveOuncesOfPain) “According to a source close to Andy, he was released from his contract almost immediately after suffering his second consecutive UFC loss at UFC 92.”.

The UFC doesn’t issue a press release each time they cut a fighter and word sometmies takes time to filter out. Reese Andy was off ufc.com’s fighter roster a couple weeks ago (possibly earlier since that’s the first time I checked). It’s probably safe to assume most of these fighters were released the next day (or week) but just didn’t feel like telling everyone right away.

by undrafted on Feb 14, 2009 10:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs