Raul Rosas Jr. is just old enough to have his driver’s license and can’t legally drink alcohol yet. One thing he can legally do, however, is fight a grown man inside an MMA cage.
The opportunity is unique and unheard of for someone 17 years old. It could be the first of many to change his life. But it’s not foreign to Rosas. He’s bodied grown men for as long as physically possible – in fact, perhaps even longer. He rewrote the unofficial rulebook in Mexico as to what’s possible for a “kid” to achieve inside an MMA cage.
“I was 15 when I started my amateur career,” Rosas recently told MMA Junkie. “… Since it was an Indian area, it was mostly up to the promoter. We ended up convincing him and he ended up giving me the opportunity to fight on his card. I had one fight when I was 15 and then my other amateur fight I was 16. Then, I made my pro debut when I was 17. … I fought people who were in their 30s. The oldest fighter I fought was 33 or 34. The youngest one was like 25 or 26.”
