Firas is way overrated

Zahabi is more of a MMA philosopher than trainer. It's proven that it's better to teach your fighter discipline and mechanics through repetition than to theorize and hypothesize fighting.

This is partially why (on average) Eastern European fighters, wrestlers, weightlifters and armwrestlers wreck American femboys who cry and complain. Just shut up and work hard, pussy.

GSP wasn't great because of Zahabi. GSP used to drill moves like a maniac in his prime. Due to karate background (which is repetition based martial art) and because his old wrestling coach from Romania instilled proper regimen into him.
 
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All those great Canadian fighters, being let down by Firas.

How many GSPs would we have had if it wasn't for him? Six? Eight? probably 12.

John Makdessi was gonna be something.
 
i tell you this though, almost every fighter who trains with him ends up having a better jab. that's something in MMA where jabs are like unicorns.
 
Nabs said:
Aside from GSP and Rory, whose greatness can't really be solely attributed to Zahabi's coaching imo, what other talent has he taken to the top or close to it? He might not be the Canadian Edmund, but he's overrated as hell IMO.
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Maybe there aren't any other great Canadian fighters? I don't see any other coach in Canada having success right now.
 
ryun253 said:
Rory remained stagnant once he went with Firas, GSP was already successful before going to Firas
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Shit, lazy take.

Firas completely dismantled Tyron, before it was popular.

 
Did i miss something...

Since when did we start blaming coaches for what fighters do in the cage? ..

Tristar is a great facility ( i visited there and walked the same halls as GSP did)

Fighters win and lose fights not coaches
 
NoSmilez said:
There is only so much he can do.
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Good point, so let's speak of him realistically then. As someone else pointed, Rogan is the one who stays talking him up. He's 2nd tier to Javier Mendez, Jackson & Wink, etc.
 
Paolo Delutis said:
Did i miss something...

Since when did we start blaming coaches for what fighters do in the cage? ..

Tristar is a great facility ( i visited there and walked the same halls as GSP did)

Fighters win and lose fights not coaches
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I'm sure it's a great facility...
 
SuperNerd said:
Shit take.

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Rory literally kept that jab, low kick style until his recent fights, nothing has improved since that time. Dude was a killer that got turned into a point fighter. Fuck Firas
 
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