Eddie Gordon These are tense times to be an unranked UFC fighter sitting on a recent loss. In an attempt to trim a bloated roster of well over 500 fighters, UFC officials have gone on a recent firing spree, releasing well over a dozen fighters with many more said to be on the way. Former UFC lightweight Christos Giagos told fans via Instragram that he’d been cut because the UFC was “overbooked.” Other fighters who haven’t fought in six months or more told MMAjunkie that UFC officials explained their releases as the inevitable consequence of a grim numbers game. But how did the UFC roster get so overburdened in the first place? And what reason is there to think that it won’t outgrow its own needs again, entering into a regular cycle of binge and purge
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