Video: WSOF 4's one-handed Nick Newell moves to 10-0, lands 'SportsCenter' slot

The sports world is starting to taking notice of lightweight prospect Nick Newell.

The undefeated fighter ran his pro record to 10-0 at Saturday’s World Series of Fighting 4 event, where he submitted Keon Caldwell in the first round of their NBC Sports Network-televised bout at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif.

Newell, whose guillotine-choke win subsequently was a Top 10 play on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” now owns nine first-round stoppages in his 10 career wins.

The fighter, a versatile wrestler and grappler who was born with just one fully developed arm, has maintained he can hang with the world’s top lightweights, including those in the UFC. With recent victories over the likes of Adam David Mays (6-3 at the time), Bellator and XFC vet Eric Reynolds (16-5) and now Caldwell (9-1), he could get the opportunity to prove it.

“My jiu-jitsu is nothing to mess with,” he said after the fight. “I can hang with anyone in the world. … I know what it’s like to be at the bottom, and now I’m at the top. I’m not letting anyone take it away from me.”

Look for Newell to score another high-profile bout on a future WSOF card.

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