theshooter - I think Edmund was the striking coach for Gokor & LeBell's gym,
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The thing that no one has mentioned is that the Armenians are tight. If you look at what happened to them in recent history, they stick together and rely on each other, I want to say they only trust people within their own community.
The Glendale community is big time Armenian. She trained with those guys from a very early age. She's a part of their culture.
judo man - She said many gyms weren't into teaching MMA for women back then. Until she found Edmond, she stayed mainly because she was loyal. Edmond brainwashed her until thinking she was good striker and was bangkok ready. She should have switched camps early and focused on her judo. Her own ego was her downfall.
I think it was Gokor's gym where a lot of the guys didn't want to train with a woman, and she had a lot of problems finding sparring partners early on in her career.
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Beccause he did a very good job of telling her what she wanted to hear.
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I think it was more than that You had everyone including her mother just bagging the hell out of him. There was no way she didn’t hear it.
I think she also got stuck by her own shit talking. She trash talked other people who changed teams and coaches and was stubbornly trying to prove that she was right not to, and that loyalty is of supreme importance.
wrestling: maybe woodley? hendriks? i’m sure some olympian or iowa state alumni are around.
conditioning? rhadi ferguson, or pulkkinen or poliquin or paulchek (her conditioning wasn’t a problem though)
strategy: jackson or zahabi or someone from aka (cook?) or blackhouse maybe.
by the time she was ufc champ, she could have afforded a training camp like gsp.
R1 (Ricco Chiparrelli, etc.) is right in LA
was she training with ricco? i don’t remember seeing him in her corner.
No, I’m saying she should have trained with Ricco to add a non-upper body clinch dependent takedown to her arsenal. I don’t buy the knee injury so I can’t do wrestling takedowns thing. If you can do a lunge, you can wrestle., and I’ve seen her do plenty in open workouts.