Speaking with Ariel Helwani on the MMA Hour, Northcutt revealed that he’ll be joining TriStar Gym in Montreal, Quebec. TriStar’s most famous students, as you likely know, are Georges St-Pierre and Rory MacDonald. Here’s the video of him revealing the news:
- Northcutt on Training at TriStar: “Yes sir, I will be up there full-time, it looks like. I do have schoolwork still, because I’m still at Texas A&M, so I’m trying to figure out how exactly that’s going to work…I’m still playing out that schedule, but yes sir, I’ll be training at Tristar.”
- Northcutt on Backlash Following Loss: “No one ever likes that, someone celebrating that someone lost, so obviously it’s not something that you want to hear, you don’t want to listen to. But there’s people who are lifting me up and saying great things, so I’m focused on those things.”
- Northcutt on His Toughness*: “I know that I have a ton of heart out there, so if people think that I was tapping out there because I panicked or the pressure, it wasn’t that. It was the fact that I was extremely sick.”
- Northcutt on Being the Youngest UFC Fighter: “I do have a lot to learn. So now I’m going to get to go up to Tristar and learn as much as I possibly can, and I think that [plays a big part] in everything. Just being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.”
*- Northcutt said part of the reason for his poor performance was that he had strep throat.
So how much of that is legit? And what should we look for from Northcutt in the future? Find out on the next page.
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