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On Tuesday’s episode of Stud Radio, host Justin Buchholz announced some pretty big news, revealing that he had been appointed as the team’s new head coach.
“We could talk about the team,” said Buchholz. “I’m the head coach. I have been officially. No one wants to talk about it, I’ve just been doing everything, like whatever.”
Fellow host, ‘Sir Studboy’ asked Buchholz how things have been going as the new coach and what its been like in his new role on the team.
“It’s good. It’s been an interesting time, I have not got f*cking one second to myself since I got the job, and the job I got at the banquet (Team Alpha Male Banquet). Eighteen days ago, it feels like eighteen years have gone by. It’s been non-stop. I went to TJ’s [Dillashaw] fight and right from there it was West Coast fight week. We had three guys on that, I went and cornered those guys on Saturday.”
He continued:
“The thing with coaching the team is, everybody that’s been there for a while, the majority of the team is easily coachable. The history I have is all these guys have been my peers and best friends, the main guys. Now, I don’t know what Joe [Benzvidez] and Lance [Palmer] are doing really, because they’ve been traveling all over the world, like tweeting pictures of snakes and sh*t, like I don’t know. It’s just an interesting thing to not only have to change the schedule, coach practice, coach a good practice, but dealing with everything that comes along with it. I had to drain three ears, patch a cut. The amount of tape I’m watching, I’m there all f*cking day.”
He then went on to drop some more big news about the team, stating that recently released UFC fighter Danny Castillo has been named as the team’s wrestling coach and Chris Holdsworth has been appointed as the team’s Jiu-Jitsu coach.
“The thing is: I’m head coach, Danny Castillo’s head wrestling coach and Chris Holdsworth is Team Alpha Male’s Jiu-Jitsu coach.”
He also commented on the matter of having active fighters leading classes at the gym. In the recent past, fighters like Lance Palmer, former WSOF featherweight champ, has stated that he’s been coaching wrestling practices, while still in his own training camp trying to prepare for a fight. Well, Buchholz says there won’t be any more of that.
“Yeah it’s silly, and that’s one thing I said that’s not going to happen,” said Buchholz. “We’re not going to have fighters running, active fighters, running classes. It just doesn’t work out. Coaching is something that’s very serious and needs to be treated like that.”
So has Holdsworth officially retired as a fighter then?