UFC Releases

Iuri Alcantara 

Flyweight Jussier Formiga (lost three straight)  

Heavyweight Jeff Hughes (0-3 with 1 no-contest in last four bouts) 

Khadis Ibragimov (lost all four UFC bouts)  

Flyweight Mara Romero Borella (lost four straight)

James Vick (lost four straight) 

Sports later today- How to watch

At 6 pm Eastern, the ACC Network will have an Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer matchup between Clemson and Virginia

7 pm Eastern will see the Mid-American Conference will take center stage with three collegiate football matchups: Northern Illinois-Ball State on ESPNNews, Toledo-Eastern Michigan on CBSSN and Western Michigan-Central Michigan 

*The Western-Central winner will join Buffalo and Kent State as 3-0 teams

7:30 pm Eastern will be the NBA Draft on ESPN 

At 8 pm Eastern, the ACC Network will have an Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer matchup between Pittsburgh and Notre Dame 

College Football: Sun Belt

The conference title game will feature Louisiana-Lafayette against a TBD opponent 

What would I do if I was the UFC president? 
1. Rubber-stamp Moreno v. Royval this weekend as a #1 contender bout for the men's flyweight strap

2. Put together a lightweight grand prix for the 155 belt: Conor McGregor v. Dustin Poirier 2, Tony Ferguson v. Michael Chandler, Justin Gaethje v. Rafael dos Anjos and Dan Hooker v. Charles Oliveira

3. Give Khabib a chance to go 30-0 if he chooses- a non-title bout opposite Georges St. Pierre

4. Set up the March PPV card (UFC 259) to be headlined by three title fights: Miocic-Ngannou 2 for the heavyweight title, Blachowicz-Teixeira for the light heavyweight title and Adesanya-Whittaker 2 for the middleweight title 

5. Set Ferguson-Chandler as the co-main to McGregor-Poirier 2 for UFC 257 in January  

6. For UFC 258 in February, have Gaethje-dos Anjos and Hooker-Oliveira as the main and co-main and have Weidman-Hall also on the main card 

7. Have Lewis-Blaydes next weekend rubber-stamped as- if not the #1 contender bout- then at least as a title eliminator. I'd set the Overeem-Volkov winner as the #2 contender 

8. Match Donald Cerrone opposite Clay Guida at lightweight