Francimar Barroso ‘happy’ to be released from UFC: ‘That’s something we wanted’

In an unexpected turn of events, recently-cut UFC fighter Francimar Barroso is not the least bit sad about being released from his contract. In fact, as he explained to Globo Esporte, the light heavyweight and his managers were happy to hear the news as they have had proposals from other organizations.

“We’ve been negotiating with the UFC for the longest time. We’ve been discussing my weight class change. I sent them a proposal for a different contract, I was trying to get a better deal, but they hadn’t given me an answer until last week. They got in touch and informed me I was being released from my contract. That was no problem at all. My managers celebrated that, because it was something…