Nate Marquardt FIRED from UFC: Dana White’s SHOCKING REASONS
By Sean Farrell
Former King of Pancrase and former UFC middleweight title contender Nate Marquardt had hoped to drop down to the welterweight division in the UFC to face Rick Story tomorrow night in the main event. Instead, Nate is the one who’s been dropped.
Less than one hour after the UFC officially announced that Marquardt has been scratched from Sunday’s UFC on Versus 4 main event, UFC president Dana White informed the world Marquardt also has been released from the organization. Dana White said “I’m sure you heard that Nate Marquardt is out, it’s true. He failed his medicals. Not only is he out of this fight, out of the main event on Versus, he will no longer be with the UFC.”
Neither White nor Marquardt’s management team were immediately available for comment, but the announcement comes on the heels of a hectic afternoon after Marquardt “did not receive medical clearance” and was pulled from a planned main-event bout with Rick Story. Charlie Brenneman was quickly slated as a last-minute replacement to face Story. The heavyweight bout between Cheick Kongo and Pat Barry was promoted to the evening’s featured slot, where in all honesty it should be anyway.
More on the reasoning for the scratch as I receive details, Marquardt has yet to speak publicly on the matter, but his management team talked on his release from the promotion.”Nate is really disappointed, He really was looking forward to making his welterweight debut, and he plans to be back in there as soon as possible.”
For Marquardt however, “there” doesn’t appear to be inside the Octagon.