Flin Flon's Hunter Lee is ready to step back into an MMA Ring this weekend in Tampa Bay Florida.

 

Lee is 3-0 as a professional fighter and will be taking on a bigger opponent in American Chris Choo who stands at 6 ft1 and has a record of 4-2.

 

Lee who is now 25 and is a former U-Sports National Champion and Bronze Medalist from the Pan Am Games has had trouble finding opponents in his weight class. All his fights so far have been in  the 195-205lb weight class and he sees his eventual weight class to be in the 170-175 pound range.

 

Lee's ultimate goal is to be fighting in the UFC, and for that to happen he would have to get on the UFC Contender Series.

 

To get there, an up-and-comer like Lee would likely have to get scouted and noticed while competing in the so-called feeder leagues and promotional cards at the regional level, where fights are shown on the UFC streaming sites.

 

There are a few other ways to get there including the Ultimate Fighter Reality TV show , and if you can rack up enough wins on the regional scene they could possibly  pull you up to the UFC without having to go through the Contender Series.

 

Hunter would be happy with any of those scenarios and says they start to look at guys when they go 5-0 and he is 3-0 right now. Lee hopes for a title shot with Unified MMA in the fall.

 

Lee says he hasn't totally given up on his Olympic Wrestling dream and has had success on the International scene including his Bronze Medal at the 2023 Pan American games in Chile in the 86kg event.