Haig brings a breath of fresh air to a division that needs all the talent it can get. He started his pro career in Bellator and started 2-0 before he went elsewhere. He fights out of San Jose, California, and is affiliated with the American Kickboxing Academy (AKA), a renowned MMA gym. He...
2025-04-11 18:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostDyer
Pros:
-Excellent kickboxing
-Stays busy/Good output
-Diverse kicking attack
-Explosive
-Solid movement
-Good distance management
-Attacks from both sides
-Uses feints nicely
-Excellent bodywork
-Super...
In this piece, I highlight three promising fighters on their journey to potential UFC stardom, giving them well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Each fighter is introduced with a brief background, followed by their responses to three key questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectations, and w...
2025-04-05 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWataru Yamauchi
Pros:
-Combination striker
-Strong kickboxing combinations
-Goes to the body well
-Accurate
-Good jab
-Excellent teeps
Cons:
-Sits in the pocket too long
-P...
Pros
-Manages distance well
-Submission threat
-Uses length well
-Dangerous off his back
-Times takedown entries well
-Good head movement
-Good counter striker
-Athletic
-Combination striker
-Good use of kicks
Cons
-Pulls guard
In this piece, I highlight three promising fighters on their journey to potential UFC stardom, giving them well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Each fighter is introduced with a brief background, followed by their responses to three key questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectations, and w...
2025-03-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I highlight three promising fighters on their journey to potential UFC stardom, giving them well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Each fighter is introduced with a brief background, followed by their responses to three key questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectations, and w...
2025-03-25 23:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I will take a young/raw/inexperienced prospect. I'll break down the said fighter and give my prediction on the career trajectory of the highlighted fighter, AJ Hotchkins.
Hotchkins has an athletic background as a former D1 college linebacker, playing for both Oregon and UTEP (University of Texas at El Pa...
2025-03-24 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I highlight three promising fighters on their journey to potential UFC stardom, giving them well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Each fighter is introduced with a brief background, followed by their responses to three key questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectations, and w...
2025-03-23 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I highlight three promising fighters on their journey to potential UFC stardom, giving them well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Each fighter is introduced with a brief background, followed by their responses to three key questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectations, and w...
2025-03-20 01:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I spotlight three rising prospects on their journey to potential UFC stardom. My goal is to give these fighters well-deserved recognition before they reach the big stage. Along with a brief introduction to each fighter, I asked them all the same three questions—offering insight into their mindset, expectation...
2025-03-19 01:05:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Pros
-Power jab
-Good knees
-Quick release
-Scrambles well
-Good ground and pound
-Quick twitches/Subtle feints
-Explosive
-Heavy right hand
-Credible TDD
-Blistering one-two
Cons
-Rushes in recklessly/Over committing
-Can be too willing to exchange
-Oftenly gets out...
t’s rare to see prospects signed straight into the UFC, but Pereira is an exception—largely because she’s a young female fighter in the bantamweight division. Women’s bantamweight is notoriously shallow, so when a promising fighter emerges, the UFC tends to snatch them up quickly.
I understand why they signed Pe...
2025-02-23 02:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Ferri
Flyweight
4-0
USA
25-years-old
Like many MMA fighters, Ferri comes from a strong wrestling background. A Division I wrestler, he was a four-time league all-star in high school, a two-time Division I state champion, and a two-time New England champion. His high school record—203 ...
2025-02-22 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Pros
-Submission threat
-High work rate/Always working
-Scrambles effortlessly
-Strong kickboxing base
-Good cage wrestling
-Fluid hips
-Dynamic
-Excelling jiu-jitsu
-Explosive takedown entries
-Intelligent ground and pound
-My personal top 25 fighters
-Nobody signed to the UFC, PFL, KSW, and ONE.
-Nobody 32-years-old and over
-Updated regularly
Jeff Creighton
USA
29-years-old
11-2-1
54% finish rate (1 KO/TKO, 5 Submissions)
A1 Combat welterweight champion
Combined opponents' record: 68-50
Pros
-Good use of elbows
-Good knees
-Gets better as the fight goes
-Tough as nails/durable
...
2025-02-17 15:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostAlibi Idiris
Kazakhstan
30-years-old
10-0
55% finish rate (4 KO/TKOs, 1 Submission)
Naiza flyweight champion (two title defenses)
Combined opponents' record: 66-21-2
Pros
-Good vision
-Scrambles really well
-Useful teep
-Good bodywork
-Divers...
Thicknesse is stepping in on short notice, but the silver lining is that his opponent is also making his UFC debut and remains extremely raw. One of Australia’s most highly regarded bantamweight prospects, Thicknesse boasts a 3-0 professional record, following an 8-1 run as an amateur. In 2020, he secured the Oceania gold m...
2025-02-04 02:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Flyweight
27-years-old
Five-foot-five
Scottsdale, Arizona, US
6-0
2 KO/TKO's
Combined opponent's record: 11-8
Boxing: A-
Kickboxing: C
Knockout power: B+
Explosiveness: A-
Footwork: B
Clinch: B+
Wrestling: A
Grappling: B+
Ground and Pound: A
Submission threat: D
Strik...
Welterweight
28-years-old
Six-foot-two
Sao Paulo, Brazil/Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
7-0
6 KO/TKO's
Combined opponent's record: 20
Boxing: C-
Kickboxing: C
Knockout power: C
Explosiveness: A
Footwork: B
Clinch: A-
Wrestling: A-
Grappling: B
Ground and Pound: A
Submission thre...
Damien McGuigan
Flyweight
9-1
Ireland
21-years-old
McGuigan is currently on an impressive streak, having won nine consecutive fights. His last five bouts have all been title fights, and he now holds the flyweight gold for Cage Conflict, UK Fighting Championship, IUR Fighting Championship, an...
2025-01-25 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s clear that Aleksandre Topuria is getting this opportunity largely due to his brother’s influence. It’s hard to argue that he earned it through fighting, given his lack of regional titles, notable wins, and extended periods of inactivity. After a six-year layoff, he returned in 2021 but fought only once a year from ...
2025-01-22 22:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Bantamweight
23-years-old
Five-foot-six
Osh, Kyrgyzstan
11-0
3 Submissions, 8 KO/TKO's
Combined opponent's record: 48-11
Boxing: C+
Kickboxing: C+
Knockout power: C
Explosiveness: B+
Footwork: B-
Clinch: A
Wrestling: A
Grappling: A
Ground and Pound: A-
Submission th...
Pros
Strong grappling
Good ground and pound
Diverse submission attack
Scrambles well
Tough to read
Cons
Accepts bottom position
H...
2025-01-21 22:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to go fully in the blind, watching someone I've never heard of. For in upcoming article I'm working on I stumbled across Lina Narvaez as I was scouting fighters from Colombia.
Welterweight, Lina "La Zurdita" Narvaez (4-0)
Pros
Submission threat
Volume striker<...
2025-01-21 01:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, what got you into MMA? What inspired you to start training in MMA?
I started training kickboxing when I was 14 (in 2016) and started BJJ in 2021. I had a few amateur kickboxing fights and I wasn’t feeling like it was enough of a challenge. In kickboxing there are a lot of early stoppages...
2024-12-28 23:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In this piece, I will take a young/raw/inexperienced prospect. I'll break down the said fighter and give my prediction on the career trajectory of the highlighted fighter, Joe Fields.
I'm the flyweight division's biggest fan, so I was looking forward to watching Fields. I knew of him because of his last fight but I took...
2024-12-23 01:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to take a deeper look into Susurkaev considering he's coming off his first fight that went the distance. Prior to that, Susurkaev had finished his other fights in the first round and three of those were under a minute. After his fight with Artem Kuzmin for ACA Young Eagles out of Russia he took a layoff. The layoff w...
2024-12-22 01:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostInstead of doing just one prospect, I decided to do three prospects I've never watched and give my honest review.
Bantamweight, Lawrence Lui (5-1)
Pros
Uses feints well
Good ability to get back to his feet
Stiff jab
Good elbows 2024-12-16 02:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
