After stints with the UFC and ONE Championship, ‘Super’ Sage Northcutt has formally signed with the Skilled Fighters League.
Based on a report from Mike Bohn of MMA Junkie, Northcutt has inked a take care of the promotion and is predicted to make his debut in 2025.
Northcutt first burst onto the combined martial arts scene in 2015 beneath the UFC banner. Throughout his three-year run with the promotion, the Texas native scored himself a strong 6-2 file with noteworthy wins in opposition to Michel Quiñones, Thibault Gouti, and Zak Ottow.
After preventing out his contract in 2018, Northcutt traded within the Octagon for the Circle, signing with ONE Championship in quest of greener pastures and a larger alternative to compete.
Sadly, Northcutt’s plan backfired when he suffered a horrifying 29-second knockout in his promotional debut in opposition to Cosmo Alexandre. ‘Super’ was left with eight facial fractures that required 9 hours of surgical procedure to restore.
Sage Northcutt cuts ties with ONE after pulling out of long-awaited battle with shinya Aoki
The harm put him on the shelf for 4 years earlier than making his return to ONE in Might 2023. Northcutt secured a quick-fire submission victory over Ahmed Mujtaba at ONE Combat Evening 10 and was later scheduled for a scrap in opposition to Japanese MMA legend Shinya Aoki in January.
Sadly, that battle by no means got here to fruition after Northcutt pulled out of the bout hours earlier than it was scheduled to go down after his coaches did not acquire visas to nook him on the occasion in Tokyo.
“I sent ONE Championship the necessary paperwork they required to get my coaches visas 48 days ahead of the event,” Northcutt wrote on social media. I used to be advised by them over the telephone and by textual content my major jiu-jitsu coach Fabio Prado didn’t want a visa since I paid for his airfare flights and journey so he was not categorised as a working worker that wanted a visa and that my different coach may get in as a vacationer so he didn’t want one both.
“My coaches were there for almost a week, and I was not informed that two of them could not coach until hours before my match. I received a text from an unknown number that texted me for the first time that day that was a ticket salesman asking me about getting my two coaches complimentary tickets to watch my fight in the audience. I personally believe that ONE Championship was not going to inform me that my coaches were not allowed to corner me until I arrived at the arena to fight if I did not hear from a ticket salesman hours earlier.”
Northcutt exited the promotion shortly after, wrapping up a run that noticed him compete simply twice over 5 years.
