Joe Rogan has shared his pick for the next breakout UFC star in the 185-pound weight class.<\/p>\n
The middleweight division is currently ruled by Khamzat Chimaev, who doesn\u2019t plan on sticking around the 185-pound mark for long. Chimaev has insisted that he plans to make a move to the light heavyweight division<\/a> in the near future. So, he might be done with the weight class long before the next crop of young talent begin to emerge as contenders.<\/p>\n Taking to the \u201cJoe Rogan Experience,\u201d<\/a> Rogan expressed his belief that there is one middleweight prospect who might just take over the mantle long after Chimaev is out of the picture (h\/t MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cAteba Gautier, this guy is from Cameroon,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cOh, he\u2019s f*cking terrifying. He\u2019s 185 pounds, 6\u20194,\u2019 built like a Greek God, smokes everybody. Everybody just gets smoked. Terrifying power, super speed, excellent technique, everything. He\u2019s good, man. He\u2019s good. Super f*cking strong, too. Very big for the weight class and awesome striking. \u2026 That guy\u2019s the future. He\u2019s the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Gautier\u2019s next fight is scheduled to take place at UFC 324 on Jan. 24. It\u2019ll be UFC\u2019s debut on Paramount+ and Gautier\u2019s opponent will be Andrey Pulyaev, who is coming off a finishing win over Nick Klein.<\/p>\n Thus far in his young pro MMA career, Gautier\u2019s record is 9-1. In his most recent outing back in October, he collided with Tre\u2019ston Vines at UFC 320. \u201cThe Silent Assassin\u201d finished the fight in the opening frame.<\/p>\n Gautier has only gone the distance twice in his 10-fight career. One of those decisions was the lone defeat of his career when he dropped a decision to Glenn Williams. This was just the second pro bout in Gautier\u2019s career.<\/p>\n It won\u2019t be long for MMA fans to find out whether or not Gautier can keep his momentum going in a big spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan has shared his pick for the next breakout UFC star in the 185-pound weight class. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}