{"id":235026,"date":"2017-04-21T05:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=235026"},"modified":"2017-04-21T05:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:54:47","slug":"shaky-start-ufc-career-artem-lobov-says-asked-released-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/artem-lobov\/shaky-start-ufc-career-artem-lobov-says-asked-released-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"After shaky start to UFC career, Artem Lobov says he asked to be released by promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, Artem Lobov will face the biggest test of his career in the UFC&#8217;s fourth-ranked featherweight, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cub-swanson\/cub-swanson-artem-lobov-bash-twitter\/\">Cub Swanson<\/a>. He&#8217;ll enter this fight on a two-fight win-streak, and if <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/artem-lobov\/artem-lobov-predicts-knockout-against-cub-swanson\/\">he scores the upset,<\/a> he&#8217;s likely to burst into the featherweight top-10, where more high-stakes challenges await.<\/p>\n<p>Things haven&#8217;t always been so good for Lobov. Speaking to Peter Carroll of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/Artem-Lobov-asked-for-UFC-release-last-year-after-two-successive-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NewsTalk.com<\/a>, Lobov explained that, after losing his first two fights with the organization \u2013 decisions to Ryan Hall and Alex White \u2013 he actually contacted the UFC and asked to be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cub-swanson\/cub-swanson-gives-take-whether-artem-lobov-actually-belongs-ufc\/\">released from his contract<\/a>. Apparently, he was offered a fight with a champion in another promotion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI messaged the UFC and told them to release me,\u201d Lobov said of his mindset after his second consecutive UFC loss.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI explained that I understood that I had two losses and if they were going to cut me it would be fair. I told them I had found a champion outside of the UFC to fight, who I felt was the best unsigned talent outside of the promotion.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was confident that the other promotion wanted to put the fight on, but then the UFC came back to me with another matchup. I took it because UFC is where I want to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHaving those losses was not easy, but I\u2019m not a moaner and I\u2019m not a complainer. I\u2019m a go-getter and an earner,\u201d he said. &#8220;I was never going to stay down, crying. I dusted myself off and I was ready to either leave the UFC or get another matchup. I wasn\u2019t begging anyone for another fight, I wasn\u2019t crying about the bad situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cInstead of that, I just thought about what I needed to do to fix the situation and get me to where I needed to be. I did just that and now I am where I want to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his last two fights, Artem Lobov has defeated Chris Avila and Teruto Ishihara, both by decision. Do you think he can make it three in a row against Swanson? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 4\/21\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, Artem Lobov will face the biggest test of his career in the UFC&#8217;s fourth-ranked featherweight, Cub Swanson. 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