{"id":265280,"date":"2017-12-07T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265280"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:13:06","slug":"angela-magana-announces-shes-released-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/angela-magana\/angela-magana-announces-shes-released-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Magana Announces She&#8217;s Been Released by the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Magana has had quite a unique journey with the Ultimate Fighting Championship as well as just her career in MMA. Ranging from events such as verbally submitting to Jessica Aguilar in a 2008\u00a0fight after getting blood in her eye to getting into an altercation with UFC Featherweight champion, Cris Cyborg at the UFC Performance Institue during the 2017 Athlete Retreat&#8230;it&#8217;s been quite a crazy ride for the former The Ultimate Fighter season 2o contestant.<\/p>\n<p>Magana last fought at UFC 218 this past weekend against Amanda Cooper. Magana lost via second-round TKO thus extending her UFC losing streak to three straight(five overall and six including TUF 20) which was just too much for the organization to keep the\u00a0twenty fight Strawweight veteran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I immediately asked for a rematch with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufc<\/a> and they have released me after dropping 3 losses in a row. I&#39;m thankful for the opportunities afforded to me through my journey with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> and am currently headed to the gym to train for my next win. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/yourmajesty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#yourmajesty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Angela Magana (@AngelaMagana1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaMagana1\/status\/938925296618803200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Magana has never been one to be shy with her words as she recently spoke to us at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-61-joe-riggs-angela-magana-valentina-shevchenko-volkan-oezdemir\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a> where <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-misunderstood-angela-magana-message-haters\/\">she addressed her haters and how misunderstood she feels<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m so misunderstood, but who wants to be understood by the asses?\u201d Magana said on the latest episode of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-61-joe-riggs-angela-magana-valentina-shevchenko-volkan-oezdemir\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWho wants to be misunderstood by the masses? I don\u2019t. Like I give a fuck what anybody thinks about me. People who know me, who\u2019ve ever interacted with me, ask anybody who has ever actually met me and had a conversation with me. They fucking love me. Everybody else can believe what they want online.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAll these people, they\u2019re unhappy because they go to nine to five jobs, they live in their safe zone, and they\u2019ve never dared to venture out and do something like fighting, or do something where they might lose in front of a million fucking people. So the fact that I can have the balls to venture out and do those things, and get on a stage like that, or say what I want\u2026 I\u2019m not like fucking Paige VanZant. They already told us that they want a good role model. When I was on TUF 20, they were like, \u201cIf you wanna be [the next] Ronda Rousey, be a good role model. Don\u2019t be the bad girl.\u201d I was like, \u2018I\u2019m just gonna be me, fuck it.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see in Magana&#8217;s tweet, she says she &#8220;immediately asked for a rematch&#8221;. Which is understandable after hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-possible-early-stoppage-angela-magana-challenges-sexism-mma\/\">how she felt about the stoppage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI feel like the fight was stopped early,\u201d Magana explained on the latest episode of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-61-joe-riggs-angela-magana-valentina-shevchenko-volkan-oezdemir\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>. \u201cI remember my corner saying 28 seconds, and there were less than 30 seconds. Yes, [Cooper] was bashing the shit out of me, but I was <\/em>fully<em> with it. I was fully aware of what was going on. As soon as it stopped I was over with the referee just seeing the replay. I put my hands out like what the hell? But that\u2019s his decision. You have to respect his decisions. I felt like if I could have got <\/em>a third<em> round, and my corner said, \u2018whatever you do, don\u2019t go to the ground, stand up [with her].\u2019 I might have pulled something out of somewhere, I don\u2019t know, to be able to win it. Who knows, but it was stopped a bit early. I feel like that\u2019s the thing with women\u2019s MMA. That they always stop us early in comparison to the men.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI understand [the referee is] doing his job, and he\u2019s doing what\u2019s in my best interest, but I feel like, he knew there <\/em>was<em> only 30 seconds left,\u201d Magana continued. \u201cI feel like I could have waited it out. I\u2019m sitting here fine today, totally with it. Nothing wrong with me, black eye, some swelling in my cheek. I was never even bloody. No blood, there was not even a hit hard enough to make me bleed, so why didn\u2019t he let the fight go on?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe thing that I noticed with the WME IMG taking over, I thought they started letting these fights go more than they used to. I thought that was something maybe that they did to push these guys to be aggressive. But it\u2019s always been the same thing with the women\u2019s fights. I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again, next time, do I need to put a banana in my fucking <\/em>shorts,<em> and get a crew cut, so they think I\u2019m a fucking dude and let the fight go?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are your thoughts on Angela Magana&#8217;s release from the UFC?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 12\/7\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Magana has had quite a unique journey with the Ultimate Fighting Championship as well as just her career in MMA. 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