So I've went through this list of fighters to see if the backlash is justified. I thought it'd be unfair to count the current ranked fighters as development takes time, so I went off of the rankings a year ago. Here are the fighters missing and if they are still ranked.

THREAD: https://twitter.com/BigMarcel24/status/1291350325979422723
-WSW-
Nina Ansaroff - Ranked then and now
Courney Casey - Ranked then
Yan Xioanan - Ranked then and now
-WFlyW-
A. Shevchenko - Ranked then and now
P. Botelho - Ranked then
M. Barber - Ranked then and now
M. De La Rosa - Ranked then and now
M. Borella - Ranked then
R. Modafferi - Ranked then and now
A. Lee - Ranked then
J. Maia - Ranked then and now
L. Carmouche - No longer signed
-WBW-
I. Aldana - Ranked then and now
Y. Kunislaya - Ranked then and now
C. Zingano - No longer signed
M. Chiasson - Ranked then and now
L. Lansberg - Ranked then and now
S. Eubanks - Ranked then and now
V. Araujo - Ranked then
-FlyW-
S. Pettis - No longer signed
R. Bontorin - Ranked then and now
J. Espinosa - Ranked then and now
R. Benoit - Ranked then
K. K. France - Ranked then and now
A. Perez - Ranked then and now
R. Paiva - Ranked then and now
M. Schnell - Ranked then and now
C. Rosa - Ranked then
-BW-
P. Munhoz - Ranked then and now
C. Stamann - Ranked then and now
R. Font - Ranked then and now
T. Almeida - Ranked then
-FW-
S. Burgos - Ranked then and now
R. Hall - Ranked then and now

-LW-
G. Gillespie - Ranked then and now
A. Hernandez - Ranked then
I. Makhachev - Ranked then and now

-WW-
E. dos Santos - Ranked then
V. Luque - Ranked then and now
-MW-
I. Heinisch - Ranked then and now
A. Carlos Jr - Ranked then and now
D. Branch - No longer signed

-LHW-
A. Rakic - Ranked then and now

-HW-
S. Abdurakhimov - Ranked then and now
B. Ivanov - Ranked then
M. Tybura - Ranked then
A. Sakai - Ranked then
There may be one or two mistakes in there, but if they started these a year ago, removed all the people that have been cut since (at least from this list) and didn't include guys that have since lost their spot (al least from this list).

There would still be 30 fighters missing.
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