The UFC has trimed it's roster even more this morning with the news David Loiseau, Ryo Chonan and David Bielkheden have all been released from thier contracts and are no longer listed on the official roster.
The fighters join the likes of Jason MacDonald, Jason Day, Vinny Magalhaes and Antonio Mendes on the growing list of recent casualties.
Loiseau is perhaps the least surprising of the bunch. The Canadian was at one time a top 185-pound title contender, winning four of five bouts inside the Octagon, including stoppages of Evan Tanner, Charles McCarthy and Mark Weir before falling to then-champion Rich Franklin at UFC 58 back in March 2006.
After the loss to Franklin, Loiseau dropped three of his next four and fell of the radar. He was cut from the promotion rather abruptly after a unanimous decision loss to Mike Swick at UFC 63 later that year.
He battled hard to get back into the UFC, going 4-2 outside of the promotion, but unfortunately couldn’t capitalize on the second-chance opportunity, coming up on the wrong end of a decision to Ed Herman at UFC 97 on April 18.
Chonan and Bielkheden on the other hand, just couldn’t seem to get things going. “The Piranha” went 1-3 and recently dropped two straight after a unanimous decision loss to Karo Parisyan in his UFC debut back in November of 2007.
Like Chonan, Bielkheden came up short his first time out, succumbing to the punches of Diego Sanchez at UFC 82. He rebounded with a unanimous decision win over Jess Liaudin last October, but got choked out by Mark Bocek at UFC 97 just last month.
