Chris Curtis making ‘clean break’ from MMA after missing out on Contender Series contract

This was it. Chris Curtis’s moment had come.
After 10 years of toiling away on the regional MMA scene, bouncing from Kentucky to Pennsylvania to Rhode Island, even taking a stop in Alberta, Canada, “The Action Man” was finally going to get that UFC contract. He’d been signed for a welterweight fight on the season two premiere of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, a booking that felt like culmination of all the hard work that the Curtis put into the sport.