Is Glover the Goat fighter/coach?

[andgonsil]

In addition to Poatan, Strickland trained with him before the fight against Adesanya

 

[loisestrad]

In the future everyone will be GOAT for 15 minutes.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Ever heard of Edmond Tarverdyan? The stuff legends are made of

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

When it comes to fighters transitioning to coaching, Glover is definitely up there but I think it's more his personal connection with Alex.
I mean he even stares down all of Alex's opponents with him. Can't wait till he talks Alex through guillotining Ank.

I would have loved to see GSP transition into coaching

 

[MarioLemieux]

Ever heard of Khabib Nurmagomedov?

P4P#1, Champ, and trains the current P4P#1, not to mention Umar and Usman?

UFC: Khabib Nurmagomedov is the 2022 MMA Coach of the Year

UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov has been named GIVEMESPORT's MMA Coach of the Year for 2022.

www.givemesport.com

 

[ExitLUPin]

Ever heard of Khabib Nurmagomedov?

P4P#1, Champ, and trains the current P4P#1, not to mention Umar and Usman?

Islam, Umar and Usman were trained and brought up by Khabib's dad. Khabib trains and coaches them now but they were already complete MMA fighters when Abdulmanap was still alive. And for Islam, Bagandov and Javier are far more critical for his development and coaching than Khabib. You Khabib nuthuggers need to give it a rest lol

 

[TheGreenMachine]

Islam, Umar and Usman were trained and brought up by Khabib's dad. Khabib trains and coaches them now but they were already complete MMA fighters when Abdulmanap was still alive. And for Islam, Bagandov and Javier are far more critical for his development and coaching than Khabib. You Khabib nuthuggers need to give it a rest lol

I believe Pereira was already a kickboxing phenom before training with Glover, so that defeats everything you just said.

Khabib's camp has an insane record even after Abdulmanap's death, so its unfair to not give Khabib credit where credit is due.

 

[MarioLemieux]

Islam, Umar and Usman were trained and brought up by Khabib's dad. Khabib trains and coaches them now but they were already complete MMA fighters when Abdulmanap was still alive. And for Islam, Bagandov and Javier are far more critical for his development and coaching than Khabib. You Khabib nuthuggers need to give it a rest lol

Khabib has been their true head coach for over half a decade, maybe longer because Abdulmanap's coaching was lesser in his later years, and fine tuning them into champions. Putting in a lot more man hours with his team than Glover, who did some BJJ with Pereira after he was already one of the best strikers in the world.

It's like not even close.

 

[Harlekin]

Glover has very crude striking.
- Pereira got his striking from his kickboxing trainers anyway

Did Pereira develop a solid groundgame since his 5 years with Glover? NO

Has Glover developed any other great fighter? NO

Glover a great trainer? Doubt it. He is experienced, has solid ground game, but I wouldn't put him close to the top 10.

 

[ExitLUPin]

Mike Brown IMO

He was the best FW in MMA in the late 00s until Aldo got to him and took the belt. Beat the brakes off prime Faber twice who was one of the top P4P fighters in the world and considered by most the best of the little weights (below LW). You can even put Faber in this discussion actually but AFAIK he isn't as involved in direct coaching compared to others

Mike has been the head coach at ATT for a decade now. Coached many champions some of them prospects from the ground up, some of them journeymen before they moved to ATT and had career resurgence. Big reason why ATT was by far the top camp for years.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

I believe Pereira was already a kickboxing phenom before training with Glover, so that defeats everything you just said.

kickboxing is a different sport from MMA....so no, that isn't applicable at all lol.

There aren't exactly a lot of phenom kickboxers dominating MMA.

 

[TheMadHatter]

alex is the only great fighter glover trains. there are lots of other mediocre guys he trains that never even get mentioned. i am not even a khabib fan but it is hard to say glover is a better coach than khabib. there are numerous champs that khabib coaches and they have like 4 combined losses (not sure of the actual number, but I know it isnt very high)

 

[fortheo]

Mike Brown IMO

He was the best FW in MMA in the late 00s until Aldo got to him and took the belt. Beat the brakes off prime Faber twice who was one of the top P4P fighters in the world and considered by most the best of the little weights (below LW). You can even put Faber in this discussion actually but AFAIK he isn't as involved in direct coaching compared to others

Mike has been the head coach at ATT for a decade now. Coached many champions some of them prospects from the ground up, some of them journeymen before they moved to ATT and had career resurgence. Big reason why ATT was by far the top camp for years.

It is pretty clearly mike brown.

 

[Norcim]

I mean he even stares down all of Alex's opponents with him.

These pics are a great example of how you can easily make a mistake and end up face down on the pavement.
Looking at Poatan you can see he's a killer and so you'll leave him alone. You'd have to be really stupid or really drunk to mess with him.
Looking at Glover you see an old man with a smile on his face until you push it too far. Then his eyebrows come down and it's too late and you're done for.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Matt hume? Andre pederneiras?

 

[goOb]

I think Glover has a good knowledge of the sport that could be very valuable if applied by his students. However, this is no ordinary student he is teaching.

 

[2004 account]

He is great (glover) as his trainer but moreso due to his connection with Alex on a personal level more than anything technical

 

[Jojofan]

kickboxing is a different sport from MMA....so no, that isn't applicable at all lol.

There aren't exactly a lot of phenom kickboxers dominating MMA.

Sure there is more to MMA than just kickboxing, but his kickboxing is clearly his greatest asset inside the Octagon. Are you saying that if he didn't come in as an already elite kickboxer Glover still could have turned him into a champ?

 

[BFoe]

Like others said, it’s almost certainly Mike Brown.
But also, Javier Mendez, Matt Hume, Khabib, Fedor…

 

[humdizzle]

khabib is above him

p4p #1. now his protege islam is #1.

Usman is a bellator LW champ
Umar is fighting for the 135 title.
Belal is 170 champ