Fast facts
- Division: Heavyweight (UFC), former FURY FC heavyweight champion
- Record: 9-0 (2-0 UFC)
- Nationality: American
- Team/gym: Not reported in available sources
- Notable wins: Lucas Armand (TKO, UFC 332), Terrance Chatman (arm-triangle, UFC Fight Night 285), Matt Adams (TKO, Dana White’s Contender Series 87)
At some point before he became a UFC fighter, Anthony Wint needed to get from the P.I. (his shorthand) to his hotel, and Sean Sharaf drove him. The two heavyweights talked the whole way about Sharaf’s road into the sport. Wint brought up that car ride on Saturday night in Salt Lake City, a few hours after he’d knocked out Lucas Armand in 23 seconds at UFC 332 and then used his post-fight interview to call Sharaf out.
“There’s no beef between me and Sean, so I hope people don’t build it up as that,” Wint told reporters afterward, according to MMA Fighting.
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He meant it, I think. He also meant the rest: “I think I’m better than him and I think a lot of people would agree with me.” Both of those things live comfortably inside the same person, and that’s most of what you need to understand about Wint.
Homestead
Wint was born September 14, 1995, and grew up in Homestead, Florida, at the bottom edge of Miami-Dade. At Homestead High School he did the two things that would end up defining his adult life, though nobody could have known the second one would matter. He played football well enough to make All-Dade County three times (second team as a sophomore and senior, third team as a junior). And he wrestled. As a junior he went 37-4, made first-team All-Dade in wrestling and competed at the FHSAA state championship tournament.
Syracuse, Coastal Carolina, Western Kentucky and Monmouth all offered him. He stayed home and signed with Florida International.
The football years
At FIU he started at linebacker as a freshman and never gave the job back. Four seasons, 336 tackles (second in program history), seven fumble recoveries, three forced fumbles, an interception. He was Conference USA All-Freshman, then second-team all-conference three straight years.
The NFL draft passed him over in 2018. The New York Jets signed him as an undrafted free agent on May 7 after he impressed at a rookie minicamp, cut him at the end of training camp, and brought him back on the practice squad on September 2. He spent most of that season on the scout team until December 19, when tackle Brandon Shell went on injured reserve and Wint got promoted to the active roster. Four days later he made his NFL debut in a 44-38 loss to the Green Bay Packers. One tackle, one forced fumble. The Jets waived him on August 31, 2019.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL signed him that December. Then COVID-19 wiped out the entire 2020 CFL season, and on August 31, 2020, Wint opted out of his contract. The season he signed up for never happened.
I keep coming back to that stretch. Undrafted, cut, re-signed, promoted for one game, waived, signed in another country, and then a pandemic. Plenty of people stop there. He went looking for a different fight.
The fighting years
Wint built his record on the regional scene, winning six times and taking the FURY FC heavyweight title along the way. That earned him the main event of Dana White’s Contender Series 87 on August 11, 2026, against Matt Adams. It lasted 34 seconds. TKO, contract.
The UFC didn’t let him sit. Eleven days later he debuted at UFC Fight Night 285 against fellow newcomer Terrance Chatman and finished him with a first-round arm-triangle, which is worth remembering the next time someone tells you he’s only a big athlete who swings. The kid who went 37-4 on a high school mat has more than one way to end a night.
Then came UFC 332 on October 3. Armand walked in 6-1 on a six-fight winning streak. Wint put him away 23 seconds into Round 1. Add the Adams finish and that’s two of his last three fights done in 57 combined seconds. He’s now 9-0 with eight stoppages, per MMA Junkie’s post-event numbers, on a card that set the UFC single-event record with 11 knockouts.
He showed up for the microphone, too. MMA Fighting’s Alexander K. Lee picked Wint as the prospect from the card with the highest ceiling, writing that “you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention,” and praising a calm post-fight promo and a backstage scrum where Wint charmed the room. Lee also called him “an absolute truck of a human being,” which is about as precise a scouting report as anyone needs. Wikipedia had him at No. 15 in the heavyweight rankings as of the night of UFC 332.
Here’s my reservation, and I’d rather say it now than later. The UFC portion of his career is three fights in about eight weeks if you count the Contender Series, and the matchmakers have handed him opponents he was built to overwhelm. Lee said as much. I’ve watched too many heavyweights get carried by quick finishes into fights they weren’t ready for. Nobody knows yet what Wint does in the second round against a man who takes his first punch and keeps coming, because nobody has made him find out.
What I’ll give him is this: he seems to know that too. When he talks about Sharaf, who just upset Gable Steveson at UFC 331, he talks about Sharaf’s power first. “We’ve seen that he has the power to put me out,” Wint said, and he framed the fight as a chance for both of them.
What’s next
Wint wants the November 14 card in New York, UFC 334, and he admitted the timing is a long shot. “This short notice it’s hard to get that call, especially for the biggest card of all year,” he said. He also said the quiet part about why the fight sells: “We’re in the business of sport, but we’re in the business of show.”
That card is headlined by Josh Hokit and Ciryl Gane for heavyweight gold, which means Wint could end up at the same press conference as the man he gets compared to most. Both came out of football. Both rose fast. “Pretty much every conversation is Josh or it used to be Gable,” Wint said.
He was careful about Hokit. He said he isn’t a fan of Hokit’s antics but has nothing but love for him, and recalled Hokit saying people weren’t around when he got cut from the NFL and couldn’t provide for his family. Wint, who knows something about getting cut, said he went a different direction. Then he added, with a little smile in the words, that he is “very cunning on the mic” if anyone wants to go back and forth.
November 14 is six weeks after UFC 332. If the call comes, the guy who once caught a ride from Sean Sharaf will be asking him to share a cage at Madison Square Garden.
