The UFC’s flyweight division simply received slightly lighter.
On Thursday, the social media account UFC Roster Watch reported that each Montana De La Rosa and Andrea ‘KGB’ Lee have been launched. Whether or not their contracts had been terminated or just not prolonged is unknown.
Curiously, De La Rosa’s final battle contained in the Octagon got here towards Lee at a Combat Evening card in Louisville final yr.
De La Rosa (13-9-1) beforehand competed on The Final Fighter 26, incomes a first-round submission victory over Ariel Beck earlier than arising quick towards eventual winner Nicco Montana. Regardless of the loss, she was signed by the promotion to assist fill out the flyweight division.
She proceeded to win three straight through submission earlier than seeing her streak snapped by the hands of (you guessed it) Andrea Lee.
Sadly, she would solely win three of her subsequent 9 fights. She snapped a three-fight shedding skid in a rematch with ‘KGB’ in June, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to avoid wasting her job.
‘KGB’ Lee was one of many flyweight division’s most lively fighters
Very similar to De La Rosa, Lee (13-11) kickstarted her UFC profession by going 3-0 with wins over Veronica Hardy and Ashlee Evans-Smith earlier than shedding three straight fights. She bounced again with back-to-back W’s towards Antonina Shevchenko and Cynthia Calvillo however then proceeded to lose her subsequent six in a row, resulting in her 2025 launch.
Lee exits the promotion presently tied with Katlyn Cerminara for probably the most bouts in UFC girls’s flyweight historical past at 14.
