Up & coming MMA fighters under the age of 25 right now
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Rory Macdonald, 23 years old, Welterweight. Dude basically steam rolls his opponents, his only loss in his career is to now Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit in a fight that Rory dominated and would have easily won by decision until Condit caught him for a TKO with only 7 seconds left.
Has dominating wins over great fighters like Nate Diaz and Mike Pyle.
[video=youtube;IxwrtHVTmXg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwrtHVTmXg[/video]
His next fight is up against the legend BJ Penn on September 22nd at UFC 152.
A lot of people including Georges St. Pierre think he's gonna be the next "GOAT" at Welterweight in the future.
Charles Oliveira, 22 years old, Featherweight. One of the most amazing submission artists in the UFC. His only 2 career losses were to Lightweight Top 5 fighters Jim Miller and Donald Cerrone. He recently dropped to what he should have been fighting at Featherweight (145) and has been back to crushing people with his amazing submissions.
[video=youtube;BDq1pJfpi2A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDq1pJfpi2A[/video]
Already in his UFC career he's got 3 submission of the night bonuses and 1 fight of the night bonus.
Pat Curran, age 24, Featherweight
Already won two Bellator Tournaments at both Lightweight and Featherweight. Recently won the Bellator Featherweight Championship with a vicious KO of Joe Warren. Would love to see him in the UFC Featherweight division.
Here's the KO video of him winning the Championship
[video=youtube;rjAGtQosof0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjAGtQosof0[/video]
His highlight reel head kick KO of top 10 world Featherweight Marlon Sandro
[video=youtube;jkWR0tGC8P8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWR0tGC8P8[/video]
Gunnar Nelson
Age 23. Iceland. Welterweight.
9-0-1 (3KO 6Sub)
Black belt in Gōjū-ryū Karate. Received his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Renzo Gracie in 2009 after winning silver in the 2009 Mundials brown belt category, gold at the 2009 Pan American Championship (Gi), gold and silver (open class) in the 2009 Pan American Championship (No-Gi) and his performance at the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship where Gunnar took 4th place in the absolute category where he defeated the much heavier and touted BJJ Black Belts Jeff Monson and David Avellan. He's making his UFC debut September 29th against Pascal Krauss at UFC on Fuel 5.
[video=youtube;2cqMoREkzAQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqMoREkzAQ[/video]
fight starts at 4:20
Age 23. Iceland. Welterweight.
9-0-1 (3KO 6Sub)
Black belt in Gōjū-ryū Karate. Received his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Renzo Gracie in 2009 after winning silver in the 2009 Mundials brown belt category, gold at the 2009 Pan American Championship (Gi), gold and silver (open class) in the 2009 Pan American Championship (No-Gi) and his performance at the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship where Gunnar took 4th place in the absolute category where he defeated the much heavier and touted BJJ Black Belts Jeff Monson and David Avellan. He's making his UFC debut September 29th against Pascal Krauss at UFC on Fuel 5.
[video=youtube;2cqMoREkzAQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqMoREkzAQ[/video]
fight starts at 4:20
Sergio Pettis
Age 18. Milwaukee. Bantamweight/Flyweight.
5-0 (2KO, 2Sub)
Anthony Pettis' little brother. Trains at Roufus Sport. Ben Askren says Sergio's better than Anthony was at 18. Recently signed with Resurrection Fighting Alliance.
Here's his last fight from June.
[video=youtube;ahjB40S9o-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjB40S9o-U[/video]
Doo Ho Choi
Age 21. South Korea. Featherweight.
8-1 (5KO 1Sub)
Probably the best Asian prospect in MMA. Absolutely destroyed Mitsuhiro Ishida his last fight at DEEP 56 in December. Might be a bit of a flake after he disappeared before his title fight against Yokota in February, had the fight cancelled, and then reappeared weeks later as if nothing happened. But the kid can fight. Really high level striking and a developing ground game with great takedown defense. Fighting Kosuke Umeda (who is 11-11 but coming off a win over Parky) in DEEP later this month.
Ishida KO
Age 18. Milwaukee. Bantamweight/Flyweight.
5-0 (2KO, 2Sub)
Anthony Pettis' little brother. Trains at Roufus Sport. Ben Askren says Sergio's better than Anthony was at 18. Recently signed with Resurrection Fighting Alliance.
Here's his last fight from June.
[video=youtube;ahjB40S9o-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjB40S9o-U[/video]
Doo Ho Choi
Age 21. South Korea. Featherweight.
8-1 (5KO 1Sub)
Probably the best Asian prospect in MMA. Absolutely destroyed Mitsuhiro Ishida his last fight at DEEP 56 in December. Might be a bit of a flake after he disappeared before his title fight against Yokota in February, had the fight cancelled, and then reappeared weeks later as if nothing happened. But the kid can fight. Really high level striking and a developing ground game with great takedown defense. Fighting Kosuke Umeda (who is 11-11 but coming off a win over Parky) in DEEP later this month.
Ishida KO