EA Sports UFC Roster: 15 Most Shocking Fighter Omissions

By Sam Heard /

14. Yoel Romero

Cuban mixed martial artist Yoel Romero has been causing a stir in the UFC ever since he joined the promotion from the ranks of the now-defunct Strikeforce. It is not really what he has done in MMA but how he has done it which warrants Romero€™s placement on the game. Though he got into MMA at a fairly late stage in his athletic career, the 37-year-old Olympic silver medallist has shown himself to possess all the attributes to be a force in the middleweight division. You would be wrong in thinking that the Olympic wrestler just relied on his world-class grappling skills. Prior to his last fight, Romero had won all of his victories via KO/TKO, showing himself to be an unpredictable striker capable of beautiful flying-knees, spinning back fists and huge elbows. The American Top Team fighter looks better with each performance and is sure to break into the ranks of the UFC middleweight division€™s top 10 fighters very soon. Expect the absence of Yoel Romero to look increasingly egregious as time goes by.