According to Fighter's Only Magazine, Ryo Chonan and David Bielkheden have been released by the UFC. Chonan was 1-3 during his UFC run, while Bielkheden went 1-2 with the company.
Jason MacDonald, David Loiseau, Vinny Magalhaes, Ryo Chonan and David Bielkheden have all been recently released by the company.
Chonan cut from UFC
I don't have a source. But Loiseau and McDonald were both removed from the UFC's website before being cut.
Expect Chonan to be the next casualty.
Project86 said:
According to Fighter's Only Magazine, Ryo Chonan and David Bielkheden have been released by the UFC. Chonan was 1-3 during his UFC run, while Bielkheden went 1-2 with the company.
Jason MacDonald, David Loiseau, Vinny Magalhaes, Ryo Chonan and David Bielkheden have all been recently released by the company.
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The UFC had to cut them, they kept losing to B level competition. The UFC will bring in new better fighters to replace them, so i guess we should be happy.
i agree, i dont think either of those guys is a big suprise, Chonan was a good fighter and the last person to beat AS (i think?) but hes getting up there in age and dana is always loooking to bring in the younger/faster/stronger/flashier fighters
No more Vinicious?
I noticed Vinny Magalhaes was already cut after losing to Eliot not sure if they posted it or not maybe hes gonna stick to BJJ only?
Edit: I must have missed it srry :lol:
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Yeah it's been posted.......Vinny is to busy during fights trying to be a kickboxer and not sticking to what he does best......Just like Gurgel.
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Big_Boy said:
Yeah it's been posted.......Vinny is to busy during fights trying to be a kickboxer and not sticking to what he does best......Just like Gurgel.
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very true. although i am i gurgel fan. i hope he wins a couple in a row to get in the ufc
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veritas said:
Big_Boy said:
Yeah it's been posted.......Vinny is to busy during fights trying to be a kickboxer and not sticking to what he does best......Just like Gurgel.
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very true. although i am i gurgel fan. i hope he wins a couple in a row to get in the ufc
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I think if Gurgel utilizes his BJJ he will be a problem at LW...He just has to stick to mixing it up.
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Big_Boy said:
Yeah it's been posted.......Vinny is to busy during fights trying to be a kickboxer and not sticking to what he does best......Just like Gurgel.
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Yeah. It's a style called Wang & Bang.
It won't win you many fights, but it will win you one of these:
buffaloblue said:
Chonan will be better off in japan imo.
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Yep. It just seemed like he was missing something over here. Might be the size of the American fighters compared to the Japanese fighters. Didn't he fight @ 183 in Pride?
GoodCat said:
buffaloblue said:
Chonan will be better off in japan imo.
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Yep. It just seemed like he was missing something over here. Might be the size of the American fighters compared to the Japanese fighters. Didn't he fight @ 183 in Pride?
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Yup!
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Big_Boy said:
Yeah it's been posted.......Vinny is to busy during fights trying to be a kickboxer and not sticking to what he does best......Just like Gurgel.
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Gurgel can strike at least, vinny is just a BJJ guy.
i don't blame gurgel for fighthing theway he does,but the 155 division lacks BJJ stand outs and he eaisly coulda shot up the rankings with some good sub wins, like his boy hazlett.
JuSt1nSaNe said:
i don't blame gurgel for fighthing theway he does,but the 155 division lacks BJJ stand outs and he eaisly coulda shot up the rankings with some good sub wins, like his boy hazlett.
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Try and tell Gurgel this. He keeps trying to be a kickboxer.
gurgel is an excellent BJJ fighter, but he would never have been able to consistently submit any of the top LW's in the UFC. He isn't big enough and he doesn't have the wrestling or strength to control guys like Penn, Florian, Sherk, Sanchez, Maynard, Franca, Stevenson, etc. I think he ultimately knew this so he fought with the intention of giving the fans what they wanted and on the way put on quite a few highly entertaining fights. He definately should have used his BJJ skills much more frequently than he did, especially against the guys he was fighting, but he had virtually no chance of beating the top dogs and he knew it.
