A promising welterweight is set to continue his career elsewhere after the UFC chose not to renew his contract once he completed his existing deal.
As initially reported by MMA journalist Tom Feely of Sherdog, Rinat Fakhretdinov has fulfilled the terms of his contract with the UFC and was not offered a new deal, with no official explanation provided by the promotion.
Fakhretdinov’s final bout under the contract came against Andreas Gustafsson at UFC Paris this past September, where he scored a lightning-fast 54-second TKO to extend his unbeaten professional streak to 24 fights.