Weight Class: Heavyweight
Record: 3-0
Age: 25
Height: 6’1”
Born In: Texas, USA
Training Out Of: La Bodega Fitness & Fight Club and Minnesota Top Team
Combined Opponent Records (at the time they fought): 4-3
Key Wins: N/A
Today, we take a look at Ezayah Gomez, a promising heavyweight prospect training out of Minnesota who has already built an undefeated 3-0 professional record. He trains alongside fellow heavyweights and UFC fighters Steven Asplund, Alvin Hines, Thomas Petersen and, more recently, Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson. His athletic background is rooted in freestyle wrestling, where he captured three Minnesota state championships during his high school career.
Gomez began his MMA journey with a flawless amateur run, compiling a 5-0 record with five TKO victories before turning professional in September 2025. During that stretch, he defeated Joseph Ndubuasi, Jesse Midas, Conor Hoy, DeShai Finzen, and Hector Porter, stopping each of them inside the distance. A familiar face on the Minnesota regional scene, Gomez made his professional debut at LFA 217, earning a unanimous decision over Adam Poulin. He followed that performance with back-to-back first-round finishes in 2026, submitting Braden Peterson at LFA 224 before stopping Lorenzo Figueroa with strikes after a vicious liver kick at LFA 231.
Gomez will look to improve to 3-0 in 2026 when he meets fellow undefeated heavyweight prospect Luther Egerson (2-0) at LFA 237 this Friday. Fighting out of Washington, Egerson will be making his promotional debut, while Gomez has an opportunity to further strengthen his case as one of the division’s most intriguing regional prospects. With the UFC increasingly willing to fast-track heavyweight talent due to the division’s lack of depth, another impressive performance will move him one step closer to a call-up.
Ezayah Gomez is exactly the kind of heavyweight you’d expect from a freestyle wrestling background. He’s at his best when fights become physical. If you’re looking for a polished kickboxer patiently working behind a jab, you’ve got the wrong guy. Gomez wants to get his hands on you, put you on your back, and make you regret every life decision that led you into the cage.
Wrestling is the foundation of everything he does. His entries are well-timed, his double legs are explosive, and he’s more than willing to mix in trips or launch opponents through the air with powerful slams. Notably, his professional debut featured one that would make Daniel Cormier crack a smile. Once the fight hits the mat, that’s where Gomez really begins to separate himself.
His ground-and-pound is already his bread and butter. Rather than mindlessly swinging for a finish, he blends positional advancement with heavy offense, constantly looking to improve before unleashing another barrage. Elbows are his weapon of choice, and they come with bad intentions. He’s especially effective at finding his way to full mount, where his physical strength becomes overwhelming. He also has a soft spot for old-school heavyweight submissions, particularly keylocks, forcing opponents to worry about more than just the elbows raining down on them even if those rarely gets finished.
Defensively, his wrestling is just as reliable. His sprawls are excellent, he’s exceptionally strong physically, and his chin has already answered some early questions after eating clean shots in his professional debut without blinking. Just as importantly, his wrestling isn’t the suffocating, control-heavy style that can drain the life out of heavyweight fights. Gomez pushes the pace, mixes strikes with grappling, and generally keeps things entertaining.
That said, he’s still a raw prospect. His striking is easily the biggest question mark in his game. The liver kick that led to the finish against Lorenzo Figueroa was a beauty, but beyond that, there isn’t enough evidence to feel comfortable evaluating his stand-up. He routinely overextends on his punches, barely moves his head, carries his hands around his waist and seems perfectly content to absorb shots. One day, a referee might decide he’s taken enough punishment, because Gomez nonchalantly just stays there eating punches with his arms on his sides.
His wrestling-first mentality creates issues of its own. He can get sloppy on top, sometimes sacrificing dominant positions while chasing low-percentage submissions, and he’s already flirted with danger after getting caught in submissions from inside opponents’ guard, escaping more thanks to sweat than technique. His cardio is another concern. He proved he can go fifteen minutes in his professional debut, but he looked fresh for maybe four of them before the pace of his wrestling started catching up to him. He’s also been out-scrambled at times, showing that his positional awareness still needs refinement.
None of those flaws are unusual for a heavyweight with only three professional fights, but they’re worth keeping an eye on. The biggest unanswered question remains simple: what happens when Gomez runs into an opponent he can’t consistently take down? Until that question is answered, projecting his ceiling is difficult. The encouraging part is that his wrestling is already good enough that very few regional heavyweights have forced him to answer it.
