5 wins against sub-par fighters with barely .5 records made him a phenom? Please. Shooto rookie tournament participants have faced tougher competition. The whole Evolve MMA team is the "best" of diddly squat. How about actually raising a fighter who can be a bit more than a glorified can crusher? The only current "champs", Aoki and Askren, aren't raised there. At least they are can crushing.
Of course it will be good long term... until he realises that Evolve has no losers. Perhaps the lesson any fighter intending to sign up with the Evolve team should realise is that just because you train at a gym with 1000x Lumpinee champs and 1000x Brazilians doesn't make you (a) unbeatable, (b) a superstar, (c) a champion and (d) any more likely to beat some guy training in a "no name" gym.
You just face opponents that you are, on paper, less likely to lose to. Don't buy into your own hype boys...
This. Evolve has been underestimating their competition since the first OneC. Honestly I don't know if the coaches even do more than cursory research on opponents.
Christian needs to quit hanging out in Singapore and go to BJ Penn's team in Hawaii or one of the big gyms in the US.