Just a minute or two ago, Jose “Shorty” Torres was the new hype in the UFC, an unbeaten young competitor out of Chicago who had held both bantamweight and flyweight titles in Titan FC.
Then, as soon as you blinked, Torres was gone, cut after going 1-1 in a pair of short-notice fights just two months apart.
He’s since landed on his feet, recently announcing that he had signed on with the Bahrain-based Brave CF.
But as he looks back on his whirlwind UFC stint, one in which he scored a second-round TKO of Jarred Brooks on nine days’ notice, and then lost in the first round to Alex Perez on 20 days’ notice, Torres believes he got a good look at the inner machinations of the company’s endless conveyor belt.