Who are the big prospects in the UFC

he is ok off his back not excellent by any means and his stand up doesnt impress me much, the first time he fought a good striker he was badly knocked out, his last two fights have been against tomato cans as the ufc is taking care off him because he was TUF winner, they need to make the show look legit and not have its winners doing ****

 

The only reason James Toney is a gatekeeper is because he cant fit through it anymore

 

Mo Lawal and Phil Davis

 

:thumbsup Without a doubt!!

 

Agreed!!

 

In the UFC good fighters tend not to stay prospects for long, and a guy can go from prospect to contender in a few fights.

I'd say that fighters like Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos are already contenders, with top ten rankings and some decent wins under their belts.

The UFC also tends to make prospects fight each other early on, rather than feeding them a steady diet of journeymen before giving them a title shot or a title eliminator - see Evan Dunham vs. Efrain Escudero, or the upcoming Phil Davis vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight.

But some guys I think could make waves in the future:

Evan Dunham (155lbs, 28 years old, 10-0)
Rory MacDonald (170lbs, 20 years old, 10-0)
Phil Davis (205lbs, 25 years old, 5-0)
Jon Jones (205lbs, 22 years old, 9-1)
Todd Duffee (260lbs, 24 years old, 6-0)

Honourable mentions: John Hathaway, Alexander Gustafsson, Johny Hendricks, Efrain Escudero.

I don't think there are any red-hot middleweight prospects at the moment.

It's also important to remember that the UFC signs the fighters it thinks have the most potential from smaller promotions, so new prospects are joining all the time.

 

i think after jones beat the poop out of hamill and bonnar he is past the prospect stage.

 

agreed:good sotiropoulos and cain had there coming out party at ufc 110

 

and jon bones jones