Warlley Alves is not on the UFC roster, MMA Combating has realized.
The 34-year-old welterweight veteran leaves the promotion with a file of 8-8.
Alves joined the UFC after representing Chael Sonnen’s workforce on the third season of The Final Fighter: Brazil in 2014, scoring a trio of wins on the truth present earlier than submitting Marcio Alexandre Jr. to say the middleweight trophy in Might 2014.
The Brazilian had a meteoric begin within the promotion, dropping again all the way down to his authentic weight class and going 3-0 with a pair of guillotine choke victories over Nordine Taleb and future interim champion Colby Covington. He misplaced back-to-back selections after that with defeats to Bryan Barberena and one other future UFC champion in Kamaru Usman.
Alves has had ups and downs since then, successful simply 4 of his subsequent 10. He was let go by the promotion after struggling 4 straight defeats between 2021 and 2024, together with stoppages to Jeremiah Wells and Ikram Aliskerov, plus resolution defeats to Nicolas Dalby and Abus Magomedov.