Travis Lutter released from the UFC

about time? he needs to build his career up in other organizations, if he trains on his cardio he has a chance to break in the top ten

ha. Have fun with Kalib Starnes in Elite XC.

I called this right after the fight just like most people im sure. why watch a guy who can barley get out of the first round without gasing

i dont get it. he’s still top 5 MW in the UFC. his bjj is world class.

He totally gased after the first round that is 2 major fights where he gased and it caused a loss. Rich Franklin is a cardio machine you need to be in great shape to compete with him even if you are better he will set a pace you can’t keep up

he’s talented – just not very smart unfortunately. How can you neglect your cardio that much?

if he had just lasted thru 3 rounds to make it competitive against franklin – he wouldve earned back alot of fans..

I feel bad for him

Dont feel bad for him.. Hes an idiot! How can you be in that kinda shape and expect to compete against guys who can go 5 hard rounds… hes had his chances and dana has seen enough of his bull, there are alot of other fighters that will come in shape and ready to fight.

In an interview Lutter said his cardio was not why he appeared to be gassed. He said he was stunned from a Franklin punch 18 seconds into the round. He said he was out of it after that.

This guy has the talent to be one of the best, maybe even the best, in the MW division. Its just too bad he doesn’t train like a champion.

Dana’s doing good lately.

How could you feel bad for him. He shoulda been happy to get a second opportunity after missing weight vs. Silva. And then he shoes up completely gassed and obviously out of shape against Ace. Regardless of what he states, punch or not, his training regime has to be questioned. The UFC isn’t going to hold onto people who aren’t hungry to fight.

he is the only man I think who didn’t care at all about improving his stand-up, it still looks amateurish.
And this tells a lot about his mentality.

Hopefully it teaches him a lesson. Two fights ago… fighting the champion. Now…. waiting tables and eating the scraps.

poor lutter!

ya f*cked up dude, u blew it… thats probably what dana told him! lol

He really should know that he was a fat ass out of shape bum and sorted it out! Simple. If he’d ran a few miles a day for a few weeks leading up to the fight, he’d have at least gone the distance (maybe!), looked a better fighter/ put up a better fight etc etc. Then would he be booted out the UFC?…… Nope. More fool him. MUG!

How is Lutter top 5 in the UFC? And how is his BJJ world class?

The guy sucks, overrated….anyone who believes in Lutter, is a TUF rookie who has been sold by the UFC hype machine

What has he done in the UFC except put on 2 TERRIBLE performances?

I wouldnt say he sucks. I would say that if you fail to make weight for possibly your only opportunity at a title fight, then your mind is obviously not into fighting. WHile all you ne wguys out there think that he had anderson silva in trouble, if you watch silva, he was never in trouble. More like biding his time. I dont think he should have been given franklin as his first fight after a year, but you have to give him credit in that he was very close to pulling off that arm bar. good luck lutter. Please stop bashing Elite XC. remember, that they still have quality fighters such as nick diaz and JZ Calvacante that would more than excel in UFC

ufc is tuffening up on fight loosers lately

Lack of respect for his opponents and he didn’t take the fighting seriously enough. Not showing up ready to fight in his two last fights, his two biggest fights, shows that.

Later Lutter. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

UFC should fire more people.

Like Kendall Grove, Melvin Guillard, etc

Well if they tuff’n up on losers Hughs better be ready.

I dont think hughs is top 5 anymore in the ww division, he was but thats not the case now.

Lutter actually did well vs Silva, I thought he had some potential but he dropped the ball.

now here are guys I would like to see drop and who they could be replaced with.

Fabrico Werdum 4 Yoshida Hidehiko
Hermes Franca 4 Faber
Chris Leben 4 Denis Kang
Charles MacArthy 4 Akiyama
Bisping 4

Big non-mma Celebrity-sport champs types to sign-up would be…
Kurt Angle, Jimmy Pedro, Nicolas Gill, Billy Blanks, Tommy Gun

2 losses/unimpressive performances and ur cut. for jake o’brien it was 1 loss and 1 bad showing against herring, and he was cut. i hope dana isn’t dumb enough that he cuts hendo too. does a guy not get any credit for fighting top competition

lutter has no place in the ufc

his cardio is a joke

he did not almost beat anderson silva

he wasnt even close to doing so

plus anderson was coming off surgey and was barely able to walk

id love to see the rematch so silva could tool him

the guys on TUF comeback failed the first time around for a reason

serra and lyttle were the only reasonable fighters there

serra is too small for 170
he is a far better fighter than most people give him credit for
but hes not top 5 at 170
could possibly be top 5 at 155 if BJ leaves

lyttle is an exciting fighter
heavy hands good conditioning
id say probably not champion material in ufc but a very tough guy who should of won TUF

hed be a perfect champion for elite xc as he is a decent fighter who always comes to fight

lutter on the other hand is a waste of space
very few fans
boring fighter
out of condition
with how out of shape he seems to be im amazed that the athletic commissions allow him to fight

its sad to see someone that talented waste it because he is not 100% focused on his ufc career, there are tonnes of fighters who would kill to have his bjj skills. If he changes his attitude he could be back, but i really can’t see it happening, if the whole weight cutting saga for the anderson fight didnt change his attitude then I dont know what will……. what a waste of talent

look at the bright side.. oh wait.. there is no bright side.

GOOD! The weight class is slim but still better off!

Travis can grapple with the best of them. His Jitz skills are DEFINITELY UFC worthy and then some. Unfortunately, his gas tank stinks BIG TIME, as shown in the franklin fight. UFC level fighters should have enough cardio to go for days, and lutter doesn’t have that. Expect this to be the same reason josh burkman gets cut after dustin hazelett tears him a new one at the TUF 7 Finale after burkman gasses out after the first round (like he usually does) and loses via TKO or submission.

He should go do some running with kalib starnes!!

It’s official- being released from the UFC makes your hair fall out.

They should have to give lutter and other fighters that doesn’t want to leave with fights left on their contracts some compensation… it seems like they can cut whoever they want for free.. talk about signing a bad contract

Good Riddance. He has no comittment to training and approaching a fight well preapred. He got full mount position against Silva and yet, couldn’t do any damage at all, his punches looked very very very soft, no power. If you get full mount you gotta finish the fight or at least dominate it completely. It’s like loosing a 10 yard field goal. It just cannot happen

I don’t think Dana is thinking things trough to well lately. First Starnes, and now Lutter, both with fights left on contract. If he was smart he would hold onto them as long as possible fighting on unaired prelims, until nobody remembers there names. Letting them go now is just giving recognizable names to the up start orgs that the UFC has invested $$$ promoting. I’m not sad to see them go though. O-yeah, and Chris Leben has never had a boring fight, and totally belongs in the UFC! IMO of course.

Lutter vs Starnes

He looks even worse on PPV when he’s saying that Franklin was lying about having surgery, feeling sorry for himself on getting hated for the Silva fight, and saying ‘do or die’ for the Franklin fight.

R.I.P. Lutter

Is that pic of him the worst pic of a fighter ever? he looks like Willem Defoe on coke.

I’m not a Lutter fan. I didn’t enjoy seeing him fight and hate his stupid comments afterward but if he had a contract, they should let him fight it out. Just don’t put them on the main card and ignore his comments. I know it seems pointless but for him, it would be better than nothing. I hate to see a contract broken.

I’m gonna go ahead and say that Dana made the wrong move dropping Lutter. Taking into account his world class bjj he should have been given a third and final chance to get his cardio in check. At the very least move the guy down to the prelims to get the message across; if you suck, you are out!

Oh and whilst i’m here Dana should think about dropping Tanner and Groves, i’m just not seeing much from these guys based on previous fights.

UFC is making a strong statement. Perform or you will be out, its that simple. They are the premier MMA organisation and are looking for exciting fights with competitors that have heart, skills and stamina. They are starting to understand that fans are paying to watch fights not one sided contests.

TUF shows this by having the guys fight to get in the house and the two episodes that have been shown have given two good fights.

It also make me think if McCarthy retired of his own accord or jumped before he was pushed.

I never rated Lutter. Trever Prangley who beat him in the past is a ten times better than him and really should have been in the UFC. Prangley would give anyone problems in the UFC and had an impressive winning streak until his last fight. And anyone who watched him fight Jeremy Horn knows he won that fight as well. The whole crowd booed when the judges gave the descision to Horn, there is no way he should have won that. Lutter was on the show for a reason, because he did not have what it takes to get a title shot through the normal route of going through all the top fighters to get it. It’s about time people have finally seen him for what he is.

Wow….another MW out….the divisions gets even thinner!

Oh well, can’t say I’m that bothered about Lutter, or McCarthy….erm or Kalib.

3 down but not much damage done me thinks, though I fancied Lutter as a gate keeper after the loss to Franklin. Guess the UFC aint playing no more….out with the drift wood!

Boo! lutter! You squanderer of second AND third chances! Yeah Lutter, we all understand that you might have better BJJ than most other middleweights, but this is MIXED martial arts, not a submission grappling tournament. I don’t care if it really was a Franklin punch or if he really does have the stamina of an asthmatic sickle-cell aenemic like I think he really does; either way he still didn’t come into his huge third chance for redemption prepared to do anything other than submit Franklin in the first round. boo. Good riddance.

Reason #126 why i hate TUF. Who has it given us besides Griffin, Rashad and Bisping? And 2 of those guys are totally overrated. What did we expect from a bunch of guys on Season 4 that couldn’t hack it the 1st time when the sport was a little fresher and sometimes you could rely on 1 discipline and win a fight? I hate that show. We’ve waited forever to see Rampage defend again because of the show. I understand he hurt his hand but 10-11 months? c’mon. Now if the rumours are true we’re gonna have to wait forever to see Big Nog defend. Scrap the show. Anyone else agree?

i dont think luter had shitty cardio for that fight, he got hit with a f****** hard punch trying to take franklin down in the first few minutes of the first round. i dont agree with many of his viewpoints though

a) he says hed kick spyders ass if they fought again. silva had knee surgery just before the fight, thats why he was fucked up and couldnt really get much going.

b) marquardts jits is nearly as good as travises, marquardt is much stronger, faster, more athletic, way better wrestler, and when he fought a healthy anderson silva he got completely pawned.

c) Andersons jits gets way better every fight, and his striking is so deadly that the moment travis makes a mistake trying to take him down, he will get fucked up bad. In my mind the way i see it playing out in a rematch is travis shoots, he gets dazed with a flying knee, flops on his back (his weakness) and gnped with andersons laser sharp fists.

d) travis is best during the first few minutes of the fight, thats when he gives it his all, anderson likes to bait guys who do this. they throw their heat, then in the later minutes they make a mistake and BANG, dead.