This doesn’t happen to football or basketball prospects. If those folks succeed on the college level, the NFL and NBA draft will let know on a certain night that they’re going to the big show.
It’s not like that in the fight game, where there is no linear path to the UFC. It could take five fights for a call to the Octagon, 20 fights, or maybe that call will never come. So with each win, it’s a waiting game, a nerve-wracking one.
Austin Hubbard knew he was close. The Denver lightweight was 10-2, he just beat Killys Mota for the LFA title in December, and he was ready.