{"id":142550,"date":"2022-09-21T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-17-year-old-kicked-butt-in-a-ufc-audition-and-is-now-the-youngest-fighter-the-company-s-ever-had"},"modified":"2022-09-21T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:33:43","slug":"a-17-year-old-kicked-butt-in-a-ufc-audition-and-is-now-the-youngest-fighter-the-company-s-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-17-year-old-kicked-butt-in-a-ufc-audition-and-is-now-the-youngest-fighter-the-company-s-ever-had","title":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old kicked butt in a UFC audition and is now the youngest fighter the company&#8217;s ever had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raul Rosas Jr. wins Contender Series fight. Photo by Getty Images 17-year-old Raul Rosas Jr. broke ground, becoming the UFC&#8217;s youngest ever signing. Rosas won a wild fight by decision Tuesday to earn a UFC contract from boss Dana White. Watch the main Contender Series highlights right here. This is 17-year-old Raul Rosas Jr., who had been handed a rare opportunity to fight an adult in front of Dana White on the penultimate episode from season six of Contender Series. Raul Rosas Jr. prepares for his Contender Series bow. Photo by Getty Images The Contender Series provides White with an outlet to identify up-and-coming talent he wants to funnel into the UFC. You don&#8217;t just need to win to earn a UFC deal, you have to do so in impressive fashion. Contender Series studio. Photo by Getty Images Rosas joins nine other athletes hoping to succeed on the Contender Series, a weekly promotion that finishes airing Tuesday, September 27. Jafel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raul Rosas Jr. was one of numerous Contender Series fighters to earn UFC contracts after impressing Dana White at the Apex in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,128],"tags":[161,11,58,158],"class_list":["post-142550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ufc","tag-combat-sports","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}