After his third weight miss with the promotion—and second in a row—Season 29 of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Volkanovski vs. Team Ortega winner Bryan Battle has been cut from the UFC.
Many had speculated that Battle’s UFC career was in jeopardy after he weighed in at 190 pounds for his scheduled middleweight bout against Nursulton Ruziboev at UFC 319. Having already missed weight in his previous bout against Randy “Rude Boy” Brown, Battle had moved up from the 170-pound welterweight limit to the 185-pound middleweight limit, believing the change in weight class would eliminate any issues with weight cutting.