A young welterweight will get his chance to make a splash at the big show with Sage Northcutt's expected debut at UFC 192.
I'm not saying this feels like part of a larger trend, as Northcutt certainly isn't the first young fighter to be signed to the UFC before he turned 20, but does feel like there's a sense of change in the air as the UFC. Fighters like Francis Ngannou, Bilyal Makhov, Dan Jolly, Jonathan Wilson, Oluwale Bamgbose, Joe Merritt, Jonavin Webb, and many others are no longer the exception, but a new subset of the rule. The UFC is going after more fighters early in their career. But, even by that standard, Sage Northcutt (who, makes his debut at UFC 192) is something of an…
