we've got to get this kid to check out HQ, this is the next GSP/Anderson Silva/Jon Jo

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news...prospect-ever/


"His first goal is to win an Olympic gold medal. He's focused on 2016, when he'll only be 19, but is going to stay with the sport through the 2020 Olympics."

"As far as MMA goes, I definitely want to be an MMA fighter and a UFC champion one day," said Pico. "I'm wrestling through 2020. I'll be 23 years old. That's still young for MMA."

Pico started wrestling at four, following his older brother in to the sport. He was boxing at ten. He was training mixed styles since 13, competing in Pankration tournaments.

"As a boxer, when he was 12, he captured not only the PAL national championship in his age group in that sport, as well as the Upstanding Boxer award, but followed it up the next year at the Junior Golden Gloves championships. He also won the European Pankration championship in the Ukraine."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0zeCKqKpmY#t=155