With a new year coming up, it’s time to take a look at the potential breakout fighters for 2022 in the UFC. To keep things simple, I figured I’d pare it down to one fighter per each weight class – the women’s featherweight division doesn’t count – in addition to a couple of criteria I wouldn’t let myself budge on, even when I really wanted to.
The criteria: the fighter needs to have made their UFC debut in 2020 or later or have three or less fights within the organization in addition to not having cracked the UFC’s official rankings at any point.