{"id":222292,"date":"2017-02-11T09:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=222292"},"modified":"2017-02-11T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:33:18","slug":"dana-white-says-misha-cirkunov-done-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/misha-cirkunov\/dana-white-says-misha-cirkunov-done-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White says Misha Cirkunov is done in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 206 in December, streaking light heavyweight Misha Cirkunov stepped into the Octagon for a highly anticipated showdown with Nikita Krylov. Cirkunov rose to the occasion and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-206-results-nikita-krylov-vs-misha-cirkunov\/\">continued his undefeated UFC streak as he submitted Krylov in the very first round<\/a>, marking the biggest win of his UFC career.<\/p>\n<p>The win made it four in a row for Cirkunov, who many believed to be on the brink of bursting into the official UFC&#8217;s rankings following a 1st round KO win over Daniel Jolly in his UFC debut, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufn-89-results-misha-cirkunov-vs-ion-cutelaba\/\">which he followed up with back to back submission wins over Alex Nicholson and Ion Cutelaba<\/a> before his win over Krylov.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cirkunov-wins.png\" alt=\"Misha Cirkunov\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cirkunov-wins.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cirkunov-wins-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cirkunov-wins-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cirkunov-wins-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, following failed negotiations with the UFC, UFC President Dana White spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/ufc\/video\/white-we-ve-been-talking-with-gsp~1055160\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a> to reveal that fight fans will not see Cirkunov in the UFC again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI met with Misha and his wife, and good people and everything else, but he ended up really flaking out on the deal,\u201d White said. \u201cSo I\u2019m not interested. I\u2019m done. He knows I\u2019m done. I made it very clear I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll see him somewhere,\u201d White said. \u201cIt just won\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The news is certainly unfortunate for fight fans, who had grown to enjoy Cirkunov&#8217;s fights inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1.png\" alt=\"Scott Coker\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Scott-Coker1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing is likely certain, Bellator MMA will likely be quick to offer Cirkunov a deal in hopes of securing the streaking light heavyweight contender.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\" target=\"_blank\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 2\/11\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 206 in December, streaking light heavyweight Misha Cirkunov stepped into the Octagon for a highly anticipated showdown with Nikita Krylov. Cirkunov rose to the occasion and continued his undefeated UFC streak as he submitted Krylov in the very first round, marking the biggest win of his UFC career. The win made it four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":162373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[17152],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White says Misha Cirkunov is done in the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Streaking light heavyweight contender Misha Cirkunov will no longer be apart of the UFC according to UFC President Dana White.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/misha-cirkunov\/dana-white-says-misha-cirkunov-done-ufc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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