Ankalaev needs to train at AKA

[blaseblase]

Not necessarily to advance his skills but for game planning. He's shown terrible fight IQ in fights before and his coaching seems like trash. Now he's talking about standing with Pereira. I really hope he's playing mind games and not being serious because I will smh if the one guy with good wrestling at LHW doesn't use it against Pereira. AKA would help him focus on his strengths and picking the right strategy for each opponent.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

i wouldn't even say Ankalaev has good wrestling, it's just he's the only LHW who knows how to do it.

the thing about his IQ is, who knows if it's a team thing. maybe it's an Ankalaev thing. remember Leonard Garcia? trained with the best team in MMA at the time, Jackson's MMA, and yet he never once improved he just stayed a wild brawler.

 

[oldschoolmmafan]

Fight IQ can not be taught.

 

[MarioLemieux]

You mean team Nurmagomedov in Dagetan I presume? AKA is nothing at this point other than a place that team Nurm trains when they come to the US.

I think Khabib and co are friends with him not sure why they never took him on. Probably because he's too big and needs bigger sparring partners.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Not necessarily to advance his skills but for game planning. He's shown terrible fight IQ in fights before and his coaching seems like trash. Now he's talking about standing with Pereira. I really hope he's playing mind games and not being serious because I will smh if the one guy with good wrestling at LHW doesn't use it against Pereira. AKA would help him focus on his strengths and picking the right strategy for each opponent.

I tend to agree, he's a talented fighter who makes bad decisions.

 

[blaseblase]

You mean team Nurmagomedov in Dagetan I presume? AKA is nothing at this point other than a place that team Nurm trains when they come to the US.

I think Khabib and co are friends with him not sure why they never took him on. Probably because he's too big and needs bigger sparring partners.

AKA is where their game plan is developed and Javier is their coach. Even in Abu Dhabi cards Javier is there.

 

[BigTruck]

i wouldn't even say Ankalaev has good wrestling, it's just he's the only LHW who knows how to do it.

the thing about his IQ is, who knows if it's a team thing. maybe it's an Ankalaev thing. remember Leonard Garcia? trained with the best team in MMA at the time, Jackson's MMA, and yet he never once improved he just stayed a wild brawler.

Yeah I don't get why everyone is acting like he's the grappler of grapplers to wrestlefuck Alex and smash him on the ground.

 

[blaseblase]

Yeah I don't get why everyone is acting like he's the grappler of grapplers to wrestlefuck Alex and smash him on the ground.

He's the best one the UFC has available in the current division.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Fight IQ can not be taught.

Well that is the dumbest thing I've heard this month!

 

[MarioLemieux]

AKA is where their game plan is developed and Javier is their coach. Even in Abu Dhabi cards Javier is there.

Javier Mendez reveals Khabib Nurmagomedov's evolution as a coach | BJPenn.com

Javier Mendez has revealed how his student Khabib Nurmagomedov has managed to evolve as a coach in mixed martial arts.

www.bjpenn.com

“Khabib is more the leader, he runs everything just like his father did and I come in and I do my little bits here and there. For the most part, I do what I’ve been always doing. I come in and I do my thing and Khabib, in all honesty, has always been coaching these guys even when he was fighting.


“So the only difference this time around for Umar is now he gets to have the great one in his corner also so having him in the corner with me is fantastic. My only thing when he corners is he’s going to go crazy.”


“Those are little tiny things that I give him, little things like that, everything else he has. His instruction is great, I mean he even demonstrates the striking techniques to perfection now. He knows. Khabib knows.”

 

[NoSmilez]

He has his own coach https://www.instagram.com/sukhrab_magomedov/?hl=en

He works out at extreme couture for wrestling/grappling and sparring. He does his striking with this coach. AKA wouldn't be a good fit because they don't have any big guys.

 

[bng]

first of all Uncle Cry'ev needs to win his upcoming fight and stop crying

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

Fight IQ is intuitive as well also being built over time.

Any camp can give you a game plan, it’s on you to follow it and adapt as needed in real-time.

It doesn’t matter what your corner says as the fight is happening, you are going to do what you do on auto-pilot 99% of the time.

Ank always lacked seizing the initiative in fights against elite opponents, he’s just athletic and skilled enough to win against most regardless. But it’s definitely a fatal flaw that can always bite him in the ass.

 

[Spam On Rye]

I'm sure he would if AKA was willing to come to Chechnya.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

I'm sure his knees and back will love AKA training

 

[Elegant]

I wonder if he would've still got finished by Paul Craig or dropped by Thiago Santos if he trained at AKA

 

[Doctor Grudge]

Why is Ank called the only wrestler at LHW? Rakic has used wrestling more than Ank has and no one considers Rakic a wrestler.

 

[Thesnake101]

Why is Ank called the only wrestler at LHW? Rakic has used wrestling more than Ank has and no one considers Rakic a wrestler.

It's moreso that no one considers Rakic a title threat.

 

[uled]

Not necessarily to advance his skills but for game planning. He's shown terrible fight IQ in fights before and his coaching seems like trash. Now he's talking about standing with Pereira. I really hope he's playing mind games and not being serious because I will smh if the one guy with good wrestling at LHW doesn't use it against Pereira. AKA would help him focus on his strengths and picking the right strategy for each opponent.

Can Rakic make an upset?

 

[blaseblase]

He has his own coach https://www.instagram.com/sukhrab_magomedov/?hl=en

He works out at extreme couture for wrestling/grappling and sparring. He does his striking with this coach. AKA wouldn't be a good fit because they don't have any big guys.

Don't have any big guys? 3 of their 4 most accomplished fighters are DC, Cain, and Rockhold. What big guys are at his gym?