From the age of 15, Aaron Pico was talked about as a future world champion in wrestling, and later, MMA, and possibly even boxing.
He was the most hyped and heralded prospect ever to come into the sport.
Now, at 22, everyone is looking for answers. If you go back two years ago, just before his debut on the main card in Madison Square Garden, the idea that he’d become a 4-3 fighter with a murky future seemed unfathomable. In fact, you only have to go back to late September, when he was being talked of as a future champion and that a dream match with Bellator’s featherweight champion, Patricio “Pitbull” Freire, sounded like one of the biggest fights, at least to insiders, in Bellator history.