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[Iroh]

All conjecture and assumption. Yawn, move on.

 

[Yagadot]

You can already guess the narratives if Khabib loses. Going to be very harsh and emotive. Big pressure on Khabib in this regard.

 

[Memeojima]

Khabib refers to him as a real Mexican gangster. That's a huge compliment in Russian

 

[MMAudit]

weird how he starts talking different .. slow and kinda changes his voice to a big dummy ... just talk to khabib normal .. not like a little kid

 

[liver.shot]

For real bro? Any tips on learning a new language?

The main reliable method I know of is to get a hot girlfriend that is a native speaker and go live there w/ her. (Not-hot: you might be too lazy.)

 

[legedema]

I have a very negative opinion on Javier. IMO he has contributed little to nothing to Khabib's career and is essentially there for show/ because Khabib wants to be "loyal". I think Khabib's success is 50% his father(genes, nutrition, early life, making him do sports, wrestling, advice, gameplanning etc.) 50% dedication. Most of the AKA success was from big guys like Cain, DC etc. training there not from Mendez. That's why Rockhold didn't really care for staying there. He wanted real coaching input/analysis.

From watching all the Khabib vlogs he seems to barely ever train Khabib or give him any insight/advice. Khabib barely even uses his striking anyways. I believe he's just sticking around because he wants to get a large payout from his % cut of the fight.

Imo Javier also doesn't like Khabib that much other than him being champ, they don't get along that well due to language barrier and Khabib always talks russian with the rest of his camp which Javier doesn't understand so he's just sitting there like a mute. Doesn't give much advice in the cage either. Whenever I watch them interact Mendez seems like he's annoyed. Which makes sense since Khabib just talks russian 90% of the time unless DC and co are there.
Imo the relationship is strained.

Also I don't believe I've ever seen Mendez take any credit whatsoever for coaching Khabib b/c he knows he has little to do with his success.

And how helpfull was Hooft to Rockhold ?

 

[Feardoesnotexistinmydojo]

Obviously they have known eachother for ages and get along decently. However I think it gets annoying for Mendez to not be able to understand what is being said around him whenever he trains Khabib. His crew barely speaks English. I also don't think Mendez corners anyone except Khabib(might be wrong on this) even though his crew went to AKA with Khabib for years.

I think fighters also know Mendez isn't really a coach/not high level b/c you don't see any real prospects or fighters wanting to be coached by him unlike Firas Zahabi, Kavanagh etc.

Also there is a reason Rockhold went from AKA to Henri Hooft as a striking coach(atleast for a while idk what he's doing now).

How did going to Hooft work out for Rockhold

 

[Paulsp]

Javier is a great coach

Whitman is the best though

 

[Frode Falch]

Ah.. todays shit on a coach thread..

That being said. I did not think Javier would get named in a thread like this.

 

[KlLLEmAll]

This is peak Sherdog.

 

[Not A Real Fan]

Khabib has called Javier his Mexican father in more than one post fight interview.

 

[original doom]

Maybe josh kosh was right afterall

about what ?

 

[Coconutwater]

Javier has been entrusted as the corner man by Khabib himself. Trust me, if those Dagie’s didn’t think they needed him they wouldnt go through the trouble of hauling him around. He had Khabibs fathers blessing too, who the fuck else gonna get that?

WTF are you talking about. Did you see Khabib jab Al’s face off? His striking has improved every fight.

Truth.

Javi creates the perfect training atmosphere at AKA and knows enough about striking himself to add the things Khabib needed without ignoring his grappling base.

 

[OGL]

Very active imagination, OP.
You should channel this creative energy toward something productive.

 

[realdmone1]

For real bro? Any tips on learning a new language?

think the language, be the language

 

[SalvadorAllende]

They seem to get along great but Javier has said time and time again that he was mostly a waterboy for Khabibs father.

Mendez had always amazing things to said about the Nurmagomedovs.

TS is a drama queen. Go watch TMZ or something.

 

[MM808]

 

[TheRealWill]

You should hook up with that Youtube dude who calls himself "Newt".

That's the God Damn Newt to you!

 

[ivantheterible]

For real bro? Any tips on learning a new language?

For real I was 50 when started to travel to Cuba. Only knew one word for real . Then budy taught me how to ask for a beer when we got of the plane . Now locally Latinos ask me what part of Cuba I came from lol . Listen and learn a useful phrase per day . pretty soon you will surprise yourself

 

[ivantheterible]

Sherdog is weird place.. YOU are not either guy and they have been together for many years. Why make such silly and ignorant but ppls relations

ignorant assumption is key