Topic: Kevin Lee
Kevin "Motown Phenom" Lee signed with the UFC
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12.12.2013 | 6:43 AM ET
Kevin Lee @MoTownPhenom11 Dec
It's official!! Just signed a multi fight deal with Zuffa and the UFC!! Debuting early 2014!
ExpandI don't know who's radar he's on as a UFC-bound prospect (god knows he wasn't on mine just yet), but there you have it.
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
Fighter Details
- Name: Kevin Lee
- Pro MMA Record: 19-8-0 (Win-Loss-Draw)
- Nickname: Motown Phenom
- Current Streak: 1 Loss
- Age: 1992-09-04 | Date of Birth: 1992.09.04
- Last Fight: July 01, 2023 in UFC
- Weight Class: Welterweight | Last Weigh-In: 171.0 lbs
- Affiliation: Tristar Gym
- Height: 5'9" (175cm) | Reach: 77.0" (196cm)
- Career Disclosed Earnings: $767,000 USD
- Born: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Fighting out of: Grand Rapids, Michigan
- College: N/A
- Foundation Style: Wrestling, Boxing, BJJ
- Head Coach: Firas Zahabi
- Other Coaches: Dewey Cooper
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12.12.2013 | 12:44 PM ET
12.12.2013 | 12:52 PM ET
"I'd like to take this chance, to appologize. To absolutely nobody. -Connor McGreGOAT"
12.12.2013 | 12:54 PM ET
"Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into Swansons.- Ron Swanson https://www.instagram.com/seanreimuth/ Follow me."
12.12.2013 | 1:10 PM ET
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
12.12.2013 | 1:21 PM ET
"Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into Swansons.- Ron Swanson https://www.instagram.com/seanreimuth/ Follow me."
12.12.2013 | 6:28 PM ET
"I fight em all. Men, women, children, ******** people, it doesn't matter. If you hit me, we're gonna fight. -Charles Bennett"
12.12.2013 | 8:10 PM ET
Great news looks like he will fight Al Iaquinta @169.
"He told me he was going to **** me, but was disappointed in himself when he could not get hard."
12.12.2013 | 10:52 PM ET
Holloway just needs to improve his gas tank and we're talking about a title contender right there.
"الله أكبرl"
12.13.2013 | 9:27 AM ET
Great signing tho, I would probably pick Lee to beat Holloway if they were in the same weightclass. Just to put things into perspective here...
* Edited at 12.13.2013, 9:27 AM ET *
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.13.2013 | 11:24 AM ET
* Edited at 12.13.2013, 11:25 AM ET *
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
12.13.2013 | 11:59 AM ET
He's also on my fav fighter list, love his stand up. That said he's 3-3 in the UFC all because of his ground game. On top of that all of his wins are no longer with the UFC. Including Leonard Garcia who was on a 50 fight losing streak when fighting Max, and people thought Garcia won!!!
Lee is a college wrestler with BJJ skills, considering that Holloway got takendow in almost every fight he had in the UFC, I think Lee would win that easy peasy actually.
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.13.2013 | 12:50 PM ET
Al Iaquinta Welcomes Unbeaten Lightweight Kevin Lee to Octagon at UFC 169 - http://ift.tt/1kGzDH1
"“All of a sudden, he was shooting for a takedown, and I’m like, ‘Oh, you’re a wrestler now? Remember, I’m the black belt in jiu-jitsu. And you’re shooting on me now? This is a wrap." - Nate Diaz"
12.13.2013 | 2:09 PM ET
Size is more or less the only thing I give Lee over Holloway and that would be nullified by footwork and range.
That said, I'll give you that it's all in theory because Lee is very much an unknown to me so we'll leave our theoretical discussion at that :)
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
12.14.2013 | 2:46 AM ET
I don't think AnikM is overrating Holloway, just underestimating Kevin Lee. I think he has a good shot to be a title contender.
"He told me he was going to **** me, but was disappointed in himself when he could not get hard."