Every now and then a fighter comes along in the MMA world and everybody pretty much knows how good he's going to be. Phil Hawes is one of those fighters and it seems like he's going to be great.
A few months back now, the 2015 Bloody Elbow scouting report highlighted one of the world's top middleweight prospects, Phil Hawes. In fact, he took the no. 1 spot on our list, just edging out Chechen Rahman Dzhanaev. At the time he had just moved to the Blackzilians camp and it sounded like he was looking to make a run on the TUF 21 season that featured Blackzilians fighters vs.