It’s so typically the case in sports activities that you just be taught extra out of your losses than your wins and for martial arts sensation, Sage Northcutt, that actually appears to be the case. The younger prodigy has loved greater than his justifiable share of success, beginning at a really younger age, however after a devastating loss throughout a ONE Championship debut struggle towards Cosmo Alexandre in 2019, Northcutt was compelled to step away from competitors for what grew to become an agonising four-year wait.
Now, “Super” Sage Northcutt is again, and in an unique dialog with M&F, explains that he’s studying from his errors, to be able to dominate as soon as once more.
It’s troublesome to grasp that Northcutt has achieved a lot and but continues to be simply 27 years of age. Learning karate from the tender age of 4, the younger upstart from Katy, TX, grew to become a blackbelt very early on. “Man, it’s hard to remember because I was so young, but I think it was around 7 years old,” he says of the achievement. “It was a huge accomplishment for me. I had my sister (alongside me) doing martial arts, she was 7 when she started, and she got her blackbelt and I got mine. We stuck together, kind of a family thing, and kept on doing martial arts.”
Indeed, Northcutt’s father; Mark, can also be a black belt and has served as Sage’s main coach all through an already stellar profession as an athlete. His sister, Colbey is an beginner kickboxing champion who has additionally transitioned to MMA, and youthful brother Kai is following carefully his siblings footsteps. By the age of 15, Sage was given a spot within the Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame and at 19, he grew to become the youngest individual ever to be featured on the quilt of Sport Karate Magazine. With a “Super” file like Northcutt’s, it’s not troublesome to see why he earned these accolades. He received 77 youth championships in karate and holds an undefeated file in kickboxing.
Sage Northcutt attracts on varied disciplines to struggle in MMA
“I wrestled in high school,” says Northcutt, as if he didn’t have already got his fingers full with martial arts. “Mostly just in my senior year. In ninth and tenth grade I was traveling around the world competing in kickboxing and karate on national teams, so my focus was pretty much on the striking at that time, but then towards the end of high school, that’s when I started wrestling. I won the district wrestling championship, went to regional and placed top five in the state (of Texas), and that’s when I started mixing in all the pieces together to fight in MMA.”
When Northcutt made his debut in UFC, he’d already amassed an expert file of 5-0 at 19 years of age. “Something crazy… coming into that, I had never been, that I can remember, to a UFC event,” he says. “So, the first UFC event that I actually went to was the very first event that I’m fighting at.” Incredibly, Northcutt defeated Francisco Trevino by TKO in that debut, incomes victory in simply 57 seconds. From 2015-2018, he racked up 6 wins and suffered 2 losses earlier than signing with ONE Championship. Here, nonetheless, his debut turned out to be a profession altering match, when Northcutt was knocked out within the first spherical, leaving the fighter with a number of fractures to his face.
“For a good year or so, I was trying to heal up, but I think the biggest thing was like, for me, I don’t like sitting around and not doing anything,” shares Northcutt. “So, I was trying to get out (and) into running, trying to shadow box, you know and the heavy bag. I was trying to do weights (and) do my cardio that was the biggest thing. I think sitting around doing nothing was very hard for me.”
Sage Northcutt earns knowledge in defeat
With so many wins underneath his belt, Northcutt has discovered that there’s typically extra info to be gleaned from being on the shedding finish. “You know, it was a mistake,” he says frankly concerning that first outing with ONE. “I fought at 155 pounds, (and then) I fought at 170 pounds (in) my last fight in the UFC and went up a weight class. Then I signed with ONE Championship and I went up to 185.” Northcutt understands now that the shift from 155-185 kilos was an enormous change. “It was a learning experience for me and that weight class was a very, very big weight class. I think for my frame, my bodyweight … close to 170 would be a good weight class for me.” On May 5, at ONE Fight Night 10, Northcutt will get an opportunity to place that principle to the check when he faces Ahmed Mujaba (10-2-0) again within the light-weight division.
Northcutt, who has been match his total life, didn’t let all that point away permit him to fall out of practice. “So, at a young age, when I was like four or five years old, I was already doing 250 situps and pushups every single day, pretty much,” says the elite athlete. By the time he was 7, that quantity would go up exponentially; ranging between 500-700. Northcutt says that he first began lifting weight at round 11 years outdated, so when he was capable of return to the gymnasium following the loss towards Cosmo Alexandre, he did so with nice gusto and re-ignited his ardour for pumping iron. “I feel like I was eager to get back out there,” he displays.
Sage Northcutt fuels himself for fulfillment
“I’m eating 2,000 to 2,500 calories of just carbohydrates alone, which is crazy,” says Northcutt, who’s at present consuming upwards of 4,000 energy per day whereas remaining ripped and lean. The fighter is sponsored by Trifecta and says {that a} important variety of his meals come from the corporate. Northcutt is an enormous fan of grass-fed steak, however explains that now he’s getting nearer to ONE Fight Night 10, he’s switching from heavy meats to different protein sources equivalent to salmon and eggs. “Most people (try to) eat one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, but for me, it’s pretty much double,” says the returning star. “I think it’s because of how much exercise, and cardio, and training I do.” Northcutt can also be taking his intestine well being, and the necessity for vitamins severely. He’s consuming lots of greens together with sauerkraut, which is a good supply of dietary fiber and nutritional vitamins C and Ok, together with iron and manganese. This fermented bitter cabbage can also be thought to steadiness intestine microbiome and increase the immune system. Through one other of his sponsors, Redcon1, he dietary supplements with glutamine and amino acids.
The returning warrior is worked up about getting again to lively MMA competitors, particularly since ONE Fight Night 10 will happen in his residence nation with the occasion emanating from the first Bank Center in Denver, CO. “I’m super excited,” he says. “Because it’s ONE’s first event in the U.S., I’ve got my U.S. fans engaging, and people overseas are going to tune in. I’m excited to have this fight.”
How to look at ONE Fight Night 10
The full present additionally that includes Johnson vs. Moraes III in the principle occasion, shall be broadcast May 5 on Prime Video with a neighborhood begin time of 6pm MDT. For extra info on ONE Championship, go to:onefc.com.