Gable Steveson is joining Real American Freestyle.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting\u2019s Damon Martin confirmed with Steveson\u2019s management that the Olympic gold medalist and budding MMA prospect has signed a multi-match deal with the wrestling promotion and is set to make his debut at RAF 9 in Dallas. An opponent for Steveson is still to be determined.<\/p>\n
See RAF\u2019s official announcement below.<\/p>\n
Steveson, a two-time national champion and an Olympic champion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is the brightest heavyweight prospect in combat sports. The 25-year-old tried his hand at the NFL and WWE before turning to pro fighting in 2025, where he is yet to be defeated. Steveson won his MMA debut this past September with a first-round knockout of Braden Peterson, then followed that up with a Dirty Boxing win over Billy Swanson, before he scored two more wins under MMA rules.<\/p>\n
None of Steveson\u2019s opponents have made it past the four-minute mark of the opening round.<\/p>\n
\u201cGable is a generational athlete and one of the biggest stars our sport has ever produced,\u201d RAF CEO Chad Bronstein said in a statement. \u201cWe set out to build a true professional home for the best wrestlers in the world and Gable choosing RAF is proof that we\u2019re doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much has been made of Steveson eventually making his way to the UFC, especially with the promotion\u2019s heavyweight roster currently lacking intriguing young talent. Steveson is locked into RAF for now, but his involvement likely does not preclude him from stepping into the octagon at a later date, as the promotion has already features several active UFC fighters, including Arman Tsarukyan, Michael Chandler, and Colby Covington\u2014with recent bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili set to compete at RAF 8\u2014as well as veteran stars like Henry Cejudo, Luke Rockhold, and Urijah Faber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson is joining Real American Freestyle. MMA Fighting\u2019s Damon Martin confirmed with Steveson\u2019s management that the Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,168750,168751,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-560333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-raf-wrestling","14":"tag-raf-wrestling-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}