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Muay Thai Champion Reveals Disastrous Sage Northcutt Sparring Session

20-year old UFC lightweight prospect Sage Northcutt entered the promotion in 2015 on the back of plenty of hype. After being featured on Dana White’s ‘Looking for a fight,’ ‘Super’ Sage debuted at UFC 192 against Francisco Trevino. His arrival in the UFC was marked with a dominant TKO of Trevino that October night in

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20-year old UFC lightweight prospect Sage Northcutt entered the promotion in 2015 on the back of plenty of hype. After being featured on Dana White’s ‘Looking for a fight,’ ‘Super’ Sage debuted at UFC 192 against Francisco Trevino. His arrival in the UFC was marked with a dominant TKO of Trevino that October night in Houston, Texas and came during a time that was described by fans as ‘the cash cow hunt’ for the promotion.

Others would just call it looking for marketable talent, as is the case in all sports now days. Northcutt is young, talented, flashy and of course ripped beyond belief, so it was unlikely the promotion would be throwing him to the wolves any time soon, especially considering he’d only had six professional fights. On to UFC Fight Night 80 in December.

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Northcutt faced Cody Pfister who, although more experienced as a pro, fell to the younger and much more athletic fighter by submission. UFC on FOX 18 was the next station in the whistle stop tour of Northcutt’s rise, marking the third time he’d been booked for action in just four months. He was starting to gain notoriety, not least from his fellow fighters as being somewhat of a ‘golden boy’ in the promotion. That said, he was scheduled to face undefeated (11-0) Andrew Holbrook on the January 30 card, in what would have been his biggest test to date.

As it turned out the fight which took place on the main card of the Rumble vs. Bader headlined event was indeed ‘Super’ Sage’s toughest dance, and one he’d come out of on the wrong side.

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Holbrook pulled out of the lightweight contest with Northcutt and was replaced by Bryan Barberena. The fight was bumped up a weight class to welterweight and on just eight days notice Barberena temporarily halted the surge of Sage Northcutt with a slick von flue choke submission win.

Much like Ronda Rousey and (soon to be) Conor McGregor, Northcutt was subject to a wide range of criticisms, mostly in the form of memes and gifs that spread across the MMA forums.

It’s not only other UFC fighters and fans who have something to say about Northcutt though, as you’ll see on page 2…

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Sage Northcutt Returns At UFC 200

After suffering the first loss of his MMA career to Bryan Barberena at January 30’s UFC on FOX 18, touted prospect Sage Northcutt has his return to the Octagon lined up. Northcutt will return to action on July 9’s blockbuster UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) event from Las Vegas against The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) veteran Enrique

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After suffering the first loss of his MMA career to Bryan Barberena at January 30’s UFC on FOX 18, touted prospect Sage Northcutt has his return to the Octagon lined up.

Northcutt will return to action on July 9’s blockbuster UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) event from Las Vegas against The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) veteran Enrique Marin. GQ broke the news on Twitter earlier today:

Highly touted as the future of the lightweight division when he was noticed by Dana White on the first episode of his “Lookig For A Fight” show, the 20-year-old Northcutt brought a ton of hype with him thanks to his extensive sport karate background.

He backed it up in the cage with two wins over Francisco Trevino and Cody Pfister, but his hype train came crashing down when his clear ground deficiencies were exposed by Barberena, who stopped Northcutt when ‘Super’ tapped out to an arm triangle choke that didn’t appear to be fully locked on.

Regardless, he obviously has a ton of time to right the ship and round out his overall game, but he’ll have his hands full with Marin, a touted grappler with an 8-3 overall record including five submissions who will be making his UFC debut.

UFC 200 is headlined by the awaited — and some would say controversial — welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor, while Jose Aldo will battle Frankie Edgar for the interim featherweight title (although not in the co-main event).

The event from Las Vegas’ all-new T-Mobile arena is shaping up as arguably the most stacked PPVof the year, and adding Northcutt can only help that hype and buzz significantly. We’ll have to wait and see if he’s able to capitalize.

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