Most successful camps of all time

[BowserJr]

What are the most successful camps ever. The measure is the number of champions, tournament winners and runner ups produced.

There may be some who have tons of successful top ranked fighters but not as many champs as others woth less fighters. Going that granular is tough though which is why I'm judging it by champs produced.

I'm not really after which is the best one. It's just interesting to see which camps and who were the champs from there.

I'll name some but please add whatever I miss

Chutebox
Wanderlei
Shogun
Anderson (Shooto & Cage Rage champ)
Werdum
Olivera

Brazilian Top Team
Big Nog
Arona
Vitor
Bustamante
Mario Sperry

Red Devil Fight Team
Fedor
Mousasi

AKA
Frank Shamrock
BJ Penn
Josh Thomson
Luke Rockhold
Cain Velazquez
Khabib
Islam
Umar
DC

Militech Fighting System
Pat Militech
Matt Hughes
Tim Sylvia
Jens Pulver
Robbie Lawler

Lions Den
Frank Shamrock
Ken Shamrock
Guy Mezger

Hammer House
Coleman
Randleman

Jackson Wink
Rashad
JBJ
GSP
Diego Sanchez

Caesar Gracie
Nate Diaz
Nick Diaz
Giblert
Shields

Team Punishment
Ricco
Tito
Rampage

Blackhouse
Big Nog
Anderson
Lyoto

Extreme Couture
Forrest
Ngannou
Strickland

Team Quest
Randy
Hendo
Lindland

AMC
Franklin
Barnett
Might Mouse

Add the names and teams I missed

 

[seanb1979]

giblert bruns

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

What are the most successful camps ever. The measure is the number of champions, tournament winners and runner ups produced.

There may be some who have tons of successful top ranked fighters but not as many champs as others woth less fighters. Going that granular is tough though which is why I'm judging it by champs produced.

I'm not really after which is the best one. It's just interesting to see which camps and who were the champs from there.

I'll name some but please add whatever I miss

Chutebox
Wanderlei
Shogun
Anderson (Shooto & Cage Rage champ)
Werdum
Olivera

Brazilian Top Team
Big Nog
Arona
Vitor
Bustamante
Mario Sperry

Red Devil Fight Team
Fedor
Mousasi

AKA
Frank Shamrock
BJ Penn
Josh Thomson
Luke Rockhold
Cain Velazquez
Khabib
Islam
Umar
DC

Militech Fighting System
Pat Militech
Matt Hughes
Tim Sylvia
Jens Pulver
Robbie Lawler

Lions Den
Frank Shamrock
Ken Shamrock
Guy Mezger

Hammer House
Coleman
Randleman

Jackson Wink
Rashad
JBJ
GSP
Diego Sanchez

Caesar Gracie
Nate Diaz
Nick Diaz
Giblert
Shields

Team Punishment
Ricco
Tito
Rampage

Blackhouse
Big Nog
Anderson
Lyoto

Extreme Couture
Forrest
Ngannou
Strickland

Team Quest
Randy
Hendo
Lindland

AMC
Franklin
Barnett
Might Mouse

Add the names and teams I missed

Team alpha male/manlets dominated the sub 155 divisions, especially before UFC, as well as being very successful at producing cringe

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

City Kickboxing has Volkanovski and Adesanya and remove Lindland, he was never a champion in MMA, and replace him with Evan Tanner on Team Quest because he was an actual champion.

also you're missing Tristar Gym: GSP, Rory Mac, Miguel Torres. i don't know if you want to count Vitor and Whittaker because they trained there but only for a hot second.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Team alpha male/manlets dominated the sub 155 divisions, especially before UFC, as well as being very successful at producing cringe

see, to me this is why this is kind of difficult because of so many guys switching camps. so do you count Dillashaw for Team AlphaMidget or do you count him towards Bang MMA? or both?

 

[Doctor Grudge]

Serra-Longo Fight Team

Matt Serra
Merab Dvalishvili
Aljamain Sterling
Chris Weidman

A few other fighters that had decent UFC careers.

 

[Frode Falch]

The list from TS dont make any sense. Alot of the names listed, never had the camp as their main training place.

If someone visit a gym for a short time, dont mean that they was trained and made in that gym.

I guess robert whittaker is a city kickboxing fighter now..

 

[MarioLemieux]

Including Khabib and Islam in AKA is a little disengenous.

They are from the school of Abdulmanap. Abdulmanap produced two consecutive P4P #1 fighters in the UFC, and also Usman Nurmagomedov who has the most title defences in Bellator history.

Javier Mendez himself doesn't take even credit for them.

The best Team in MMA history is Team Khabib.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

A few other fighters that had decent UFC careers.

Including Khabib and Islam in AKA is a little disengenous.

They are from the school of Abdulmanap. Abdulmanap produced two consecutive P4P #1 fighters in the UFC, and also Usman Nurmagomedov who has the most title defences in Bellator history.

Javier Mendez himself doesn't take even credit for them.

The best Team in MMA history is Team Khabib.

Usman doesn't have the most defenses in Bellator history. He has the record for the LW division.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Hammer house was fake.

Did GSP train full time at Greg Jackson ?

Chute boxe was definitely legendary in the early stages of MMA.

AKA has some crazy young talent come together

blackzilians had plenty of talent too

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Glendale Fighting Club

Ronda Rousey
Travis Browne
Edmond Tarverdyan

 

[HHJ]

Including Khabib and Islam in AKA is a little disengenous.

They are from the school of Abdulmanap. Abdulmanap produced two consecutive P4P #1 fighters in the UFC, and also Usman Nurmagomedov who has the most title defences in Bellator history.

Javier Mendez himself doesn't take even credit for them.

The best Team in MMA history is Team Khabib.

Javier Mendez def helped their striking alot, and they def benefited from training wrestling with DC. They aint goin there cos they like the sun.

 

[TheMadHatter]

ATT is one of the first that popped into my head. they have a long list of great fighters who trained there. First champ out of their camp was Robbie Lawler.

 

[VinceArch]

Is Blackzilians still a thing?

 

[Koala]

ATT had Lawler, Woodley, Young Jay Chick, Nunes, Pantoja as UFC champs
AKA had Cain, Cormier, Rockhold, Makhachev, Nurmagomedov

 

[Koala]

Is Blackzilians still a thing?

More or less repackaged as Kill Cliff (after Sanford, Hard Knocks)

 

[VinceArch]

More or less repackaged as Kill Cliff (after Sanford, Hard Knocks)

Oh wow. That's an even worse name lol.

 

[BowserJr]

Team alpha male/manlets dominated the sub 155 divisions, especially before UFC, as well as being very successful at producing cringe

That's a great one... they're like the midget AKA lol

 

[BowserJr]

City Kickboxing has Volkanovski and Adesanya and remove Lindland, he was never a champion in MMA, and replace him with Evan Tanner on Team Quest because he was an actual champion.

also you're missing Tristar Gym: GSP, Rory Mac, Miguel Torres. i don't know if you want to count Vitor and Whittaker because they trained there but only for a hot second.

I didn't know Torres trained at Tristar

 

[BowserJr]

see, to me this is why this is kind of difficult because of so many guys switching camps. so do you count Dillashaw for Team AlphaMidget or do you count him towards Bang MMA? or both?

He won the belt as team Alpha then moved. I'd count it as Team alpha