UFC Flyweights Announce Releases, Indicate the Division is Being Dismantled

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There have been rumors of divisional divisional kingpin Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson has been released from his contract for the first time in the market. Martial arts, the writing has been in big bold letters on the wall. Johnson moved over to ONE Championship, while the Singapore-based promotion released its welterweight champion Ben Askren to fight for the UFC.

Current UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo has been more than a little bit of a bantamweight to challenge 135-pound champion TJ Dillashaw is more likely to be one of the flyweights .

"That T.J. fight might happen if they're going to be done with the flyweight division. I think that cat's out of the bag and Dana had mentioned that to me, "Cejudo said in an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show.

Jose Torres, who said that he had been released from his UFC contract and that he was only one of the first to have dismantled the division.

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"I'm the first to be let go. I have not gotten to finish my UFC contract with two fighters because they are most of my division and we have a chance to bump up and prove ourselves, like myself, "Torres wrote. "So it's time to move on to bigger and better things. Good luck small guys! "

A short time later, Justin Scoggins, also a 125-pounder, added that he had also been released.

"Looks like the UFC is dropping the flyweight division. I guess I'm a free agent …

I'm ready to keep fighting my ass off, "he wrote.

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