Sage Northcutt ’s fellow fighters didn’t hesitate to kick him while he was down after the 19-year-old suffered the first defeat of his career on Saturday at UFC on FOX 18. With plenty of hype around him, Northcutt (7-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) made his third UFC appearance in less than four months when he took on Bryan Barberena (11-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) on the FOX-televised main card at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Barberena managed to discover flaws in Northcutt’s ground game and in the second round worked his way into a fight-ending arm-triangle choke .
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Fighter reactions to Sage Northcutt’s UFC on FOX 18 loss were harsh to say the least – MMA Junkie