American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) doesn’t get credit a major management project. For starters, they’ve recruited and/or developed UFC champions at lightweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight (twice).
Second, when stars like Luke Rockhold left to pursue training outside of the gym, he was able to keep his affiliation. When Cain Velasquez welcomed Daniel Cormier into the gym, Cormier agreed to compete in a different weight class as an extended thank you. Yet, Cormier is now the king of the heavyweights, albeit ready to pass the torch back. In short, everyone made sacrifices for each other’s needs knowing in the end their turn at opportunity would come. When it did, they generally made the most of it. That is an incredibly difficult balancing act to execute. Gym owner Javier Mendez has done as admirable a job as can reasonably be expected and then some.
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DC did some amazing things alright–like pushing down on the towel and cheating to make weight—what a fraud
Cain where you at? I don't think you are injured, I think you are scared….
LUKE THOMAS VS JON JONES!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Jon Jones is a Snitch Cheating Coke Head Chivato that can't stop takin Steroids😎
Team Alpha Male should take notes.
It is impressive management to be sure, but I've come to dislike "teams" more and more in mma. It's an individual merit based sport at heart and when you have two of the best fighters in a weight class not fighting each other like cain/dc machida/silva etc it takes away crediblity of undsiputed world champion.
Koscheck begs to differ
Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch had a chance to bring Welterweight Gold but never could
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