Two fighters who competed on the pay-per-view-portion of the
UFC
278 card were among the latest batch of releases from the Las
Vegas-based promotion.
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Harry
Hunsucker, Yanan Wu and
Claudio
Silva are all no longer part of the UFC roster. The cuts were
confirmed by
MMAFighting.com after Twitter account UFC Roster Watch initially
brought word of their removal. Each of the aforementioned fighters
could have either been cut by the UFC or simply did not have their
contract renewed.
Hunsucker opened the UFC 278 pay-per-view draw, suffering a
first-round technical loss to Tyson Pedro
on Aug. 20 in Salt Lake City. The former Dana White’s Contender
Series competitor went 0-3 in the Octagon, with all of his defeats
coming inside a round.
Wu, meanwhile, followed Hunsucker on the UFC 278 card, as she fell
to Lucie
Pudilova via second-round TKO. The 28-year-old Chinese fighter
lost four straight in UFC competition and was 1-5 in the promotion
overall.
Finally, the 39-year-old Silva returned to action for the first
time in more than a year at UFC Fight Night 208, where he dropped a
unanimous verdict to Nicolas
Dalby in London on July 23. That was the third consecutive loss
for the Brazilian known as “Hannibal.”