Gable Steveson has finished all three MMA opponents in short order. | Mexico Fight League<\/p>\n
Gable Steveson<\/a> will be staying active between mixed martial arts bouts.<\/p>\n The heavyweight prospect has inked a multi-match deal with Real American Freestyle, according to Yahoo! Sports<\/a>. The organization announced that Steveson\u2019s debut will come at RAF 9 in Dallas on May 30. An opponent was not revealed.<\/p>\n An Olympic gold medalist in 2020 and a two-time NCAA national champion, Steveson is one of the top prospects in all of MMA. The 25-year-old, who has worked extensively with former UFC<\/a> two-division champion Jon Jones<\/a>, is 3-0 in MMA bouts \u2014 finishing all of his opponents inside of a round. Prior to focusing on fighting, Steveson tried his hand at both professonal wrestling and the NFL.<\/p>\n As for RAF, a rematch with Wyatt Henrickson, who defeated Steveson for the 2025 NCAA national championship, is reportedly a possibility down the road \u2014 though not for his debut. Hendrickson is currently the RAF heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n A Special Talent<\/p>\n “Signing an athlete of Gable’s caliber is a defining moment that reinforces our mission to be the professional home for the world’s best,” RAF CEO and co-founder Chad Bronstein said. “Gable is a once-in-a-generation talent who brings a level of star power and technical dominance that perfectly aligns with the high-stakes atmosphere we’ve built.\u201d<\/p>\n RAF has enlisted the services of a number of current and former MMA stars for its events, including the likes of Arman Tsarukyan<\/a>, Colby Covington<\/a>, Henry Cejudo<\/a>, Michael Chandler<\/a>, Luke Rockhold<\/a>, Bo Nickal<\/a> and Urijah Faber<\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson has finished all three MMA opponents in short order. | Mexico Fight League Gable Steveson will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,61781,785,95322,254506,210817,85],"class_list":["post-564563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-gable-steveson","tag-mma","tag-olympic-gold-medalist","tag-raf","tag-real-american-freestyle","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564563","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=564563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}