Fans react to Sage Northcutt saying he has a long career ahead of him with more fights

‘Super’ Sage Northcutt is scheduled to make his long-awaited return to the circle on May 5 when ONE Championship makes its highly anticipated debut in the United States. Northcutt will be part of what is sure to be a stacked lineup as the promotion presents ONE Fight Night 10 on Prime Video.

At the 1STBANK Center in Colorado, Northcutt will compete for the first time in nearly four years when he meets Pakistani MMA champion Ahmed Mujtaba.

Despite the long layoff, Sage Northcutt is still relatively young at 26 years old. In a recent interview with ONE Championship, ‘Super’ commented on his age and the many years he still has left to compete:

“Being 26 years old right now, I’m still extremely young, so I’m looking forward to a long and successful career. I feel like I’m just getting started, and I’m still so young that I can have a lot of fights.”

Fans on Instagram reacted to Northcutt’s belief that he still has many years of competing ahead of him. One fan recalled his friend taking a picture with the American star in Vegas, to which his friend replied, saying:

“That was like 11 years ago 😳 how is he still under 30 lol”

A couple of fans believe Sage Northcutt still has his best years ahead of him and are excited to see him in action again:

“@supersagenorthcutt has so much potential and he's still young so I'm not counting him out just yet. He's also learned a lot in his last few fights, including the loss to Cosmo”

“Yoooo Sage is a good dude! Can't wait to see him back in there doing his thing”

Another fan believes that ‘Super’ has the tools to be one of the best in the business and just needs to let everyone see them:

“Sage is built to kill folks he just needs to unleash that dog”

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Sage Northcutt details post-COVID complications that kept him on the shelf

Sage Northcutt saw a long layoff after suffering a devastating injury in his ONE Championship debut in May 2019. Looking towards a 2021 return against Asian MMA legend Shinya Aoki, Northcutt was dealt yet another setback after a difficult bout with COVID-19.

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, ‘Super’ detailed just how bad things were after contracting the virus in January 2021:

"I was training hard. I was looking forward to the fight with Shinya [Aoki]. And as you know... I came down with COVID back in January [2021]. And then from there I developed blood clots from being sick. After blood clots, I was getting blood work done, checking out how I'm healing up with my progression and everything."

Sage Northcutt continued:

"I had some pain in my kidneys so got that checked out and my kidneys weren't doing too good from the COVID. And then my immune system was pretty much compromised. So I've just been healing up from that."

Fortunately, Northcutt has made a full recovery and will return to the circle in just a matter of months to get his once-budding career back on track at ONE Fight Night 10.