Poll results: MMA’s most promising young champion? Jose Aldo or Cris Santos?

The future is bright for mixed martial arts with six champions from the major MMA organizations being just 24 years old or younger.

However, in our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” weekly poll, we wanted to know which of those champions has the promising future in the sport.

Three organizations and two genders were represented in the pool of candidates, but one title-holder proved the overwhelming favorite and took the lion’s share of the votes.


The future is bright for mixed martial arts with six champions from the major MMA organizations being just 24 years old or younger.

However, in our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” weekly poll, we wanted to know which of those champions has the promising future in the sport.

Three organizations and two genders were represented in the pool of candidates, but one title-holder proved the overwhelming favorite and took the lion’s share of the votes.