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Is Eric Nipsack no longer the next great trainer?

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After his outburst against Strickland, it seems Nipsack as lost his momentum and his fighters don’t seem to be performing well…

Once thought to be the next Greg Jackson, Nipsack could not maintain his professionalism when his known headcase fighter(Strickland) did not perform as he expected.

Seems as though if a fighter wants to up their game, they need to look outside the US for a an elite camp.

Thats a damn shame.

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He said with no source at all.

Can someone expand on this? Am I out of the loop?
 
DiazSlap said:
What about after that? It’s been all down hill.
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I think it's a tall task for any coach to make Strickland a long-reigning champ, especially since he didn't want to listen to instructions during the fights.

By all accounts, he's still an excellent coach.
Ngannou improved a lot after he started to train with him.
 
Nipstick tried to calm Strickland's style down to make, trying to make it him a technical fighter instead of the brawler brute he is by nature. It's similar to when Edmond did the same with Travis Browne. Strickland fights like a damn savage like prime Wanderlei, literally tells opponents it's to the death, and look what he did to Sneako and that other influencer kid more recently. You can't try to take a wildman like that.
 
Xtreme Couture is a super camp and a destination. There's a ton of trainers there and most of the fighters go there once already established.

IMO 'great' trainers are ones like Abdulmanap who build from the ground up.
 
Nicksick is overrated. He wasn't the one drilling TDD with Ngannou, that's just an Xtreme Couture thing, you're drilling TDD whether you like it or not. It was literally the first time Ngannou was drilling with actual wrestlers lol, he could have gone to any other gym like AKA and done the exact same thing, concussing Stipe.

Strickland learned how to check a legkick from Poatan, blasts Izzy with an enormous right cross, then lands 24 unanswered punches to the head and proceeds to dogwalk a concussed Izzy for the rest of the fight, never again being in danger of finishing it. Somehow, Nicksick is to thank for this even though it was literally Strickland fighting a Strickland fight.

At the end of the day, I think that maturity falls to the coaches and you shouldn't badmouth your guys publicly, even if they didn't listen to a word you said. Ream their ass afterwards, kick them out the gym if you want, but before that, there's a certain amount of loyalty a coach needs to show towards a fighter, even a moron like Sean.

theincognito said:
Xtreme Couture is a super camp and a destination. There's a ton of trainers there and most of the fighters go there once already established.

IMO 'great' trainers are ones like Abdulmanap who build from the ground up.
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I agree that truly great trainers can mold champions from the ground up recognizing talent, not taking a top guy, fixing a few holes and getting him a belt.
 
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