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‘Super’ Sage Northcutt attracted everyone’s attention, especially female fans, with a shirtless clip of himself shadowboxing this week.
The American superstar is due to make his long-awaited comeback at ONE Championship to face Pakistani MMA fighter Ahmed Mujtaba in a lightweight showdown on May 5.
ONE Fight Night 10 on Prime Video is to take place in the US for the first time in promotional history in Broomfield, Colorado, which has kept Northcutt excited.
On Tuesday, ONE Championship reposted a clip of Sage Northcutt looking sharp, ready, and shirtless for his first match in four years. The promotion captioned the clip by saying:
“Sage Northcutt is all amped UP ⚡️ for his return to the Circle on May 5 at ONE Fight Night 10! 👊 @supersagenorthcutt”
Fans took to Instagram to shower Northcutt with support, with one person saying:
“🔥🔥🔥🔥 let’s go!!!! Looking good man!!!!”
Watch the clip below:
Ever since ‘Mighty Mouse’ Demetrious Johnson went on record to say he wanted 'Super' Sage back for the US card, which in retrospect, seemed like the arrangement was already in the works.
Thus far, four Americans have been added to the historic event in Colorado, including ONE flyweight world champion Johnson, ONE women’s atomweight contender Alyse Anderson, former two sport-world champion Aung La N Sang, and ‘Super’ Sage Northcutt.
Sage Northcutt explains his four-year-long absence from competition
Sage Northcutt’s four-year-long break from the competition has been the talk of the sports world today.
He made his first and only appearance in ONE Championship in May 2019, when he was knocked out cold by Brazilian knockout machine Cosmo Alexander in the first round.
The karate superstar said he spent a couple of weeks in recovery after suffering multiple facial fractures after his debut fight.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani from The MMA Hour, Northcutt also revealed that he was plagued by health issues which prevented him from re-entering competition.
On The MMA Hour, the 26-year-old said:
“I actually had a fight scheduled. I was supposed to fight Shinya Aoki, but two weeks out from my fight, two weeks when I was supposed to leave to go overseas, I came down and caught COVID and that just kind of like threw everything for a loop.
"I was pretty sick for a little bit, it took like 6 months of doing blood work, trying to figure out what’s going on [...] for several days not doing anything whatsoever, feeling super sick, I end up getting, like a blood clot and well that took a little bit of time.”
Watch the full interview below:
