Which fighter started their pro career at the earliest age?

[CI]

Is that sage northcutt?

 

[Mad Dollar]

Vitor Belfort

 

[CI]

probably some kid in thailand

 

[GueseGuy]

Pitbull started at 15 I believe .. dude is a legend doesn’t get enough respect from you casuals

 

[GueseGuy]

Marcin Held

Fighting pro since age 16 in 2008 and is still only 29.

He looked great on Friday night. He is only getting better.

 

[HHJ]

 

[Bork Neslar]

The Baby-Faced Assassin

 

[TSexy]

https://mmainsight.com/articles/six-youngest-ever-ufc-fighters

 

[TSexy]

The Assassin-Faced Baby

 

[Xuh]

Looks like Shev has her debut aged 15 and 1 month, Erica Montoya beat her by a couple of weeks - roughly 2 weeks after her 15th birthday https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Erica-Montoya-4094

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Her pro debut in mma. Check out her record. It was in 2003.

That's early start for her career in mma. I didn't know she was doing mma that long. Thought he transitioned to mma later in her career. Always figured she did kickboxing/muay thai first then tried mma later. Nice to know she's been doing mma from the start. People always talked about her as a kickboxer/mauy thai fighter but it seems like she was always doing mma along with it the whole time.

 

[MyFavSport]

Karo Parisyan debuted at age 16

 

[ID0ntTap]

Joe Stevenson

 

[GolovKing]

I would have thought all these phenoms who started training mma when they were 12 would be dominating by now. How come all the top fighters are still people who came from individual disciplines and transitioned over to mma as adults?

 

[GhettoGhost504]

Melvin Guillard was fighting on the regional scene here in New Orleans as a teenager. Maybe 15-16.