What went wrong with Sage Northcutt?

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5 years ago he was to become a poster boy in Ufc at the age of 19 years old with karate background.

He talked like a real athlete should do with zero thrashtalk and did not hitted old mens at bars or wearing gangster tattoos.

I believe his main issue was his father since he only trained in Texas and not in the bigger MMA gyms like American Kickboxing acedemy or Jackson-Wink

Maybe he went to ufc to soon aswell. As a fighter he was entertaining with his kicks and karate stands, it is always something special when you see someone who knows karate well and adapting that to mma such as Lyoto Machida during his prime.

He then went to One championship and got brutally kod. After 2019 we have never heard about him at all so what went actually wrong in his career? He is just 24 years old today.
 
Yrat said:
5 years ago he was to become a poster boy in Ufc at the age of 19 years old with karate background.

He talked like a real athlete should do with zero thrashtalk and did not hitted old mens at bars or wearing gangster tattoos.

I believe his main issue was his father since he only trained in Texas and not in the bigger MMA gyms like American Kickboxing acedemy or Jackson-Wink

Maybe he went to ufc to soon aswell. As a fighter he was entertaining with his kicks and karate stands, it is always something special when you see someone who knows karate well and adapting that to mma such as Lyoto Machida during his prime.

He then went to One championship and got brutally kod. After 2019 we have never heard about him at all so what went actually wrong in his career? He is just 24 years old today.
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He kinda showed he was just not that great early. The UFC gave him easy fights in the beginning and showed some technique flaws in those but was so athletic he smashed people. That crap works with PVZ because the women's division sucks but even for her her time ran out when she got to the level where she actually had to fight good fighters. The UFC tries to run with good looking fighters if they have any sort of chance of being good so Sage's decline looked harder than other's because of the way the UFC promoted him.
 
Yrat said:
5 years ago he was to become a poster boy in Ufc at the age of 19 years old with karate background.

He talked like a real athlete should do with zero thrashtalk and did not hitted old mens at bars or wearing gangster tattoos.

I believe his main issue was his father since he only trained in Texas and not in the bigger MMA gyms like American Kickboxing acedemy or Jackson-Wink

Maybe he went to ufc to soon aswell. As a fighter he was entertaining with his kicks and karate stands, it is always something special when you see someone who knows karate well and adapting that to mma such as Lyoto Machida during his prime.

He then went to One championship and got brutally kod. After 2019 we have never heard about him at all so what went actually wrong in his career? He is just 24 years old today.
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Cosmoe Alexandre
 
The UFC knew they had a potential star, groomed him as slowly as possible, gave him the easiest comp imaginable, put him on main cards, gave him more money than his abilities were worth, and he got got all the marketing behind him for free to pick up sponsors ect....then he left to Asia for a few extra grand a fight, got matched up with comp equivalent to his pay and got his cheek sent to the back of his head.

I'd probably take a year off my skull was left in fragments too.
 
He did alright. Had a good physique but not the brains to keep climbing the ladder.

Not training at a mega gym is irrelevant. Plenty of fighters make it without doing that, and plenty of fighters at ATT etc never make it. He'll still make wads of cash in Japan or wherever, he's perfect for that market.
 
You're talking as if his career is over.

The guy still has up to 10 years left in his MMA career and is many years of his actual prime. He could still definitely be an elite fighter during the time

People just expected way too much of him too soon. You have to let him grow and develop properly, he was thrown in the deep end too early.
 
He was always a good fighter, and still is, but big muscles, backflips, starting mma early, and good kicks doesn’t mean you will be the best. A lot of tough guys around.
 
Yrat said:
5 years ago he was to become a poster boy in Ufc at the age of 19 years old with karate background.

He talked like a real athlete should do with zero thrashtalk and did not hitted old mens at bars or wearing gangster tattoos.

I believe his main issue was his father since he only trained in Texas and not in the bigger MMA gyms like American Kickboxing acedemy or Jackson-Wink

Maybe he went to ufc to soon aswell. As a fighter he was entertaining with his kicks and karate stands, it is always something special when you see someone who knows karate well and adapting that to mma such as Lyoto Machida during his prime.

He then went to One championship and got brutally kod. After 2019 we have never heard about him at all so what went actually wrong in his career? He is just 24 years old today.
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It’s a hard sport very few make top ten. Even fewer become champions.

He is not one of those few
 
He's a front-runner with no Plan B. He did okay against easier competition, but just like the Vitors snd Rumbles of the world, he crumbled when his opponents fought back.
 
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