Lightweight Sage Northcutt impressed at his UFC debut Saturday, beating Frank Trevino by first round KO at UFC 192 in Houston. This week he went on UFC Tonight and spoke to Kenny Florian about his experience and plans for the future.
“As of now, I’m still a freshman, because I’m 19. But last semester, I was taking full-time classes and the workload is so much that you really don’t get time to train. So I got to work out a little bit, work out, like, biceps and do some cardio, but not much time to train MMA.
“So in the future, with more fights to come, I might actually take time off from school and take a break and train full-time. That might be a little scary for some people, because I think I’ll be a totally different animal out there training full-time.”
Northcutt also spoke about the fighter who inspired him most.
“I like Georges St-Pierre a lot, because he has, I would say, one of the best takedowns in MMA, and the timing that he has, and plus, he’s an incredible athlete. He’s ripped; he’s lean. He’s a fighter I’ve looked up to and watched since I was little, growing up.”