Jake Hadley knew exactly what he wanted to be when he was just a little boy. Hadley (8-0), who punched his ticket to the UFC on Dana White’s Contender Series 43 this past Tuesday with a second-round submission of Mitch Raposo, had a premonition when he was 11. The UFC shared a video of a young Hadley blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, and he said one of his life’s goals was to be a UFC fighter – and that dream ended up becoming a reality. 14 years ago, @JakeHadleyMMA ’s birthday wish was to become a UFC fighter. This week, odds stacked against him, Hadley’s arm was raised on #DWCS
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‘I want to be a UFC fighter’: Watch 11-year-old Jake Hadley fulfill childhood dream – MMA Junkie