10 Fighters Who Were Banished From UFC

9. Michael Graves

Michael Graves started his MMA career by going unbeaten in various promotions across Florida, before eventually trying out to be a contender on The Ultimate Fighter 21.

He would make it onto the competition and found himself involved in the American Top Team taking on the Blackzilians.

Graves had a decent showing in the competition and would defeat Vicente Luque by unanimous decision on the show's finale.

So all signs pointed to Graves taking this momentum onto the main stage of the UFC, with him going on to beat Randy Brown and draw against Bojan Veličković in his first two match-ups - post TUF.

However, that would all come to a screeching halt when news broke of Graves being arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge and his UFC career would be permanently terminated shortly after.

The fact that Graves apparently punched and elbowed his fiancée in the face, more than justifies Dana White's decision to get rid of this despicable character.

He's still in a relationship with said fiancée and they now have a son together. Yet, even though Graves' actions didn't cost him his home life, his prospects in the UFC were extinguished before they ever got a chance to catch fire.

Contributor
Contributor

Lifts rubber and metal. Watches people flip in spandex and pretends to be other individuals from time to time...