Raul Rosas Jr. overcame the biggest expertise hole of his profession from the Sphere.
“El Nino Problema” holds a particular place within the historical past books, changing into the youngest fighter ever to sign with the UFC at 17 years outdated again in 2022. Rosas has damaged extra information since then, notably profitable his promotional debut at 18 years outdated.
Raul Rosas Jr. is at the moment 4-1 within the UFC, driving a three-fight winstreak heading into his return at UFC Mexico City the place he takes on 25-fight veteran Vince Morales this Saturday.
Rosas, 20, shouldn’t be too apprehensive concerning the expertise differential after what occurred in his final struggle in September.
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Raul Rosas Jr’s opponent had 26 extra fights than him
A month earlier than his birthday, a 19-year-old Raul Rosas Jr. was matched up towards China’s Aoriqileng within the first struggle from the Sphere at UFC 306.
12 years his elder, Aoriqileng (25-11) had 3 occasions the expertise on Rosas, seeing numerous rounds throughout 24 fights that went the space.
Rosas had solely been to the judges’ resolution twice earlier than then however the younger gun wouldn’t let that cease him from dominating Aoriqileng on the bottom.
Raul Rosas grew to become first fighter to win at Sphere
What we noticed from Rosas was a extra affected person method than his earlier fights. He didn’t shoot for a takedown immediately like he did in sole loss towards Christian Rodriguez. As a substitute, Rosas arrange his strikes earlier than taking the struggle to the mat two minutes in.
It was Rosas’ world on the bottom, threatening submission makes an attempt on Aoriqileng’s again.
The second spherical ended up being quite a bit nearer, going down on the ft earlier than Rosas secured an early takedown on Aoriqileng within the closing spherical. Rosas slammed the 31-year-old proper after he made it again as much as his ft.
Rosas Jr. held Aoriqileng down for the remainder of the spherical, getting his hand raised by unanimous resolution, the primary to take action from the high-end venue.
“It feels superb making historical past at 19 years outdated,” Rosas Jr. informed Joe Rogan in his post-fight interview.
“Nonetheless the primary and the youngest…”
