The star potential for many prospects in MMA is downright frightening without question.
Rory MacDonald, Jon Jones, Alexander Gustafsson, Cain Velasquez, Renan Barao, Chris Weidman, Luke Rockhold, Erik Koch, Edson Barboza, Pat Curran and a plethora of other young prospects have arrived on the scene to great fanfare and have earned great deals of respect despite losses, controversial endings and performances perceived as inferior, but their current treks toward greatness are only half of the hubbub.
The truth is that all of the aforementioned fighters are still young in their career and still have a long way to go before they even hit their primes, yet they’re already considered among the best of the division. That fact is scary because by the time they finally look like they should be hanging up the gloves, at least one of the aforementioned might have done just enough to surpass the statistics of one of the all-time greats in MMA history.
There’s never enough that we can say about the current crop of prospects, but there’s a certain crop of next-generation stars that we could very well be talking about once MacDonald, Koch, Barao, Gustafsson, Rockhold, Barboza and Curran, among others, finally evolve from the prospects of the sport into the veterans of the sport.
At this time, I’d like to introduce you all to that crop of next-generation fighters with great star potential, complete with some video on each of these young fighters.