Evolve MMA in Singapore is home to some of the top fighters on the planet. The likes of Rafael Dos Anjos, Shinya Aoki and Angela Lee all conduct their training camps there.
It is also renowned for being perhaps the only fight team on the planet that pays fighters a competitive salary to train and compete. So competition for a spot on the fight team is always intense.
This year, Evolve MMA is organizing a global tryout for mixed martial artists from all over the world.
The fighters selected to participate are:
American bantamweight Cole Ferrell (3-0)
Brazilian strawweight Maira Mazar (6-2)
Japanese welterweight Hiroyuki Tetsuka (5-3)
Japanese strawweight Ryuto Sawada (11-4)
American featherweight Troy Worthen (2-0)
Japanese bantamweight Shuya Kamikubo (10-1-1)
Brazilian lightweight Joao Paulo Silva (10-3)
Brazilian featherweight Kaynan Kruschewsky (9-0)
Japanese flyweight Yuya Shibata (15-6)
Japanese flyweight Hayato Ishii (11-2-1)
Finnish flyweight Aleksi Toivonen (6-1)
Indian bantamweight Roshan Mainam (2-2)
Korean flyweight Kyu Sung Kim (9-2)
Japanese welterweight Takashi Sato (14-2)
Amateur Korean welterweight Nara Ha
Australian boxer Ruby Tyler
You can see how they got on in the first episode, embedded above.