An Tuan Ho
Country - Vietnam
Weight Class - Flyweight
Age : 22
Promotion - LFA
Team - MMA Lab
Record : 5-0
Ho continues to impress. He's been great for highlight finishes up to this point but I'd held off a hype post because he'd been tooling cans. Kendrick Latchman was his first solid regional vet test though and he passed it with absolutely flying colours. Kid has speed, really good power for a flyweight, seems equally adept at striking and grappling, good feinting, timing and is also extremely explosive. He's finished 9 of his 12 fights ammy and pro combined too which is very good for a flyweight. Seems to have all the makings of a future UFC contender.
Sundet Aytkul
Country - Kazakhstan
Weight Class - Bantamweight
Age : 24
Promotion - Octagon
Team - Namys MMA
Record : 6-1
Instant love with this dude. Just all round impressive. Lost his first fight when he was very young but been on an absolute roll laying waste to people since. Impressive speed and power, athletic, throws fuckloads of flying knees (maybe too many but he'll figure that out), good bodylock takedowns, brutal ground and pound with vicious elbows, great timing on straight punches down the middle that really look like they stun his opponents. Just massively impressed.
Timestamped his fight. Deffo recommend watching.
Robelis Despaigne
Country - Cuba
Weight Class - Heavyweight
Age : 35
Promotion - Fury FC
Team - Not sure
Record : 3-0
Older than I'd usually feature but it's HW and dudes can go for longer. Anyway, Robelis is a Cuban Olympic taekwondo practitioner who won a bronze at the 2012 Olympics and has won a couple of world bronzes too. He's also 6'7, seems to hit very hard and his last two fights have lasted a combined total of 16 seconds with the last one being a 4 second KO. My only concern really is around him getting fights because who the fuck wants to fight a guy like this for a couple of grand on the regionals? Seems to me that with him being 35 already the UFC might as well just bring him in and go sink or swim with him.
