5 Prospects to Watch in 2025

Phumi Nkuta at this stage of his career lacks only opportunity.

The 29-year-old former Cage Fury Fighting Championships titleholder boasts a perfect 8-0 record, having earned widespread acclaim as the top flyweight in the sport not currently signed to a major organization. Nkuta has overcome his share of adversity. In 2023, he returned from a hand injury the resulted in multiple surgeries and led to a brief retirement. Nkuta has earned glowing reviews ever since. “Turbo” laid claim to the Peak Fighting flyweight championship in his most recent assignment on June 8, when he forced a cut-induced doctor stoppage against Jesse Tafoya in between the first and second rounds of their PFC 37 co-main…