The 10 Most Notorious MMA Gym Bullies

The mixed martial arts community isn't known for worrying too much about subtleties (after all, this is cage fighting, not pillows), but if there's one thing that can still ruffle feathers it's the gym harassment of a fighter who's he tries too hard in sparring or takes too little money. Shots can often become pariahs on their own teams. Today we're going to take a look at the wrestlers who received the tag over the years, whether they justify it in their own eyes or not. These 10 wrestlers were known to push themselves too hard. Keep going after the horn. beating up newbies and in some cases perpetuating a pretty brutal gym culture.

I'm Tommy from mma on point and these are 10

notorious

gym

bullies

number 10 conor mcgregor who's better to start with than the

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? Can you believe a young conor mcgregor could do it? I've been a bit of a bully at least on his first day at spg. It was all recorded in head coach John Cavanaugh's book victory from 2016. Or I learned a decade earlier. A young, bald Conor McGregor showed up at Kavanaugh's gym looking to win but not learning much. In his first sparring session there, he would take down Owen Roddy with a big body shot. John said in his book that that wasn't the way we did things in sparring at SPG, but I decided to let it go, that's not how we do things here.

He thought Conor was trying to build a reputation with the team. Roddy was his best man at the time, but immediately after Kavanaugh was informed that McGregor had just dropped ashling daily, when he returned to the gym area, he would find Daley slumped over. Tears, it was at that moment that Kavanaugh decided it was time to learn a little, so he took McGregor down and punched him until he got the message, while saying that Conor would continue to be very competitive from then on and that he wasn't being the bully he was. On the first day, Ashling in interviews said that the hardest he had hit her was McGregor, it is not clear if she is referring to that incident or not, but yes, the young, bald Connor was a wild number nine, Zaleem Imadayev, Max Griffin , who was in the UFC.

Since 2016 and has been professional since 2009, he took a trip to Extreme Haute Couture in the weeks leading up to his fight with Thiago Alves to train a little. The regulars immediately warned him not to spar with Zaleem Imidaz. Griffin decided not to heed the advice and approached the Russian anyway. According to Max, this was meant to be a light spar, more of a touch than anything else, but he immediately he was met with spinning elbows and flying knees. He later learned that Zaleem had recently tried to fight a teammate in the parking lot for a hold.

At the shoot, incidents of bullying continued until she was reportedly asked to leave extreme couture. Another incident on the tenth jiu jitsu planet saw imadaya throwing a flying knee during jiu jitsu class. The flying knee seems to be something he really likes, I guess, even while he's rolling, maybe. the strangest accusation against zaleem is that he had an altercation with forrest griffin at the performance institute, maybe he thought it was related to max griffin, max no, forrest would eventually fight imadayev and defeat him by majority decision, zaleem was fired by the ufc after controversial comments praising a chechen teenager who beheaded a french teacher, wow number 8, rick's story, mike pierce, who trained with rick's story in the brave legion, described an incident in an interview that caused him to quit the gym completely, Mike claimed that an inexperienced beginner who had recently been suffering from vertigo related to a head injury was frustrating head coach Pat White by constantly covering up during sparring and said he asked Pierce and Story Knocked out when Mike refused, Rick allegedly floored the fighter with some big shots and then proceeded to hold him behind his head and continued punching him in the face.

History has categorically denied any abuse by himself or White. He also claimed that Pierce was kicked out of the gym for not being a team player and simply wanted to tarnish his reputation. He seemed to recognize it. that there was a sparring session with the fighter and he wrote in his statement about the incident. I listened to Pat's training and I don't think listening to my trainer is a bad thing. Years later, another fighter would come forward to claim that he was knocked out by history in practice when he was just an amateur, it should be noted that this fighter Austin Springer has also been a training partner and friend of Pierce, whether the accusations are true or not, they have stuck with the story since number 7 matt linland chael p sonnen, who lived and trained in Oregon his entire life, has some crazy stories about the co-owner and top talent at Team Quest.

Matt Lindland Chalice told the story of Lindland throwing him head first during a wrestling match even though he was already up 10-0. and it wasn't necessary, but that's the less interesting story. A sparring session that got out of control and had to be split between Matt and Nate Quarry out of jealousy over his title shot against Rich Franklin is a little more compelling, but by far the

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A crazy gym story about Lenland is what he did to Scott Smith Smith, who is probably

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famous for his victory over Pete's Cell in the UFC, was a guest of Randy Coutures on Team Quest while preparing for an upcoming King of the Cage title fight during a workout . known as shark bait, where Smith trained with three different fighters consecutively, including Matt Linlin, he felt like he was sandbagging and only pushed himself when it came time to fight him, so he dropped Scott with a knee to the face and then kicked him while he was on the ground. ground, resulting in a broken nose that would require a hospital visit and as a result, he would be pulled from his title match at King of the Cage when Matt was forced to apologize to Gem for the incident which instead used that time to eliminate. bullying who had expressed concern about his behavior when no one spoke the incident was resolved the team search sounds like a wild place number six alistair overeem when aleister overeem injured jon jones before his first fight with daniel cormier the coach considered it an accident greg jackson, but several fighters at the blackzilians gym weren't so sure because, according to their accounts, the ream was a terror according to people like rumble johnson and gilbert burns.

Overeem regularly crossed the line while training, bullying and belittling his opponents, often hurting guys. He allegedly took low blows to trainer Henry Hoofed and even knocked down a wrestler during stand-up practice, resulting in an injury that would require surgery, but Jones' injury did not help his reputation nor his teammate in Jackson Wink Andre. arlovsky told the media that it hurts him. Everyone he trains with, including him, cited a knee that caused a rib injury during sparring, just days before Jones was eliminated in a 2014 interview leading up to Overeem's fight with Stephen Stroup, he flatly says he has been hurting his sparring partners in camp but gave very little context some have come to reim's defense like donald cerrone saying he is a great teammate maybe all of these incidents were accidents but there are certainly many incidents of any way number five whosomar paul horus the man considered one of the dirtiest fighters in the history of mixed martial arts is apparently bad in the gym, too shocking when the ufc does not ban him, the world series of fighting or a series of fighting tournaments because the presentations were delayed for too long, usamar paul harris was training in the best brazilian team where he began his professional career in 2012 just at the time of his problems in the ufc he would leave the gym that was when his former coach marilla Bustamante revealed how bad things were when he trained in MTB Bustamante claimed that Polharas regularly hurt his teammates while training and was too aggressive in sparring, especially if he was preparing for an upcoming fight with Merlot. she said the quote we used to argue every time it happened so we argued a lot.

Gustava went on to say that he hired a psychologist to try to help Paul Harris with his tendency. towards the injury but he said it didn't work for what it's worth the nogueras with whom samaras trained have since gone on record saying that they have had no such incidents nepal harass is a man of great character i will let you decide how how do you feel about that number four? Hector Lombard after defeating Herbert Goodman at Bellator 24. Hector Lombard called out his teammate Josh Barnett for a fight. They both trained for a while. Barnett's side of the story is that Lombard was a bully in the gym and was too hard on everyone.

Hector claimed that he broke Barnett's nose the first time they sparred and confronted him since gymotor Eric Paulson confirmed the two once had a five-minute sparring session that ended up being over 30. He followed them around the room. mat with a mop to absorb all the blood. Another infamous story shows Barnett hitting Lombard for bullying and not letting him finish a session that Hector claims was Josh bullying him, but others have used the label as well. Dan Henderson alleged during their brief time together on Team Quest that there were complaints about Lombard beating up smaller wrestlers to boost his ego.

Jake Shields also claimed that Hector has a reputation for trying to injure or knock out the newer guys at the gym, Lombardo has had these accusations brought to him several times and has pointed the finger back, as in the Barnett case. , or has argued that he only trains with fighters bigger than him, so he can't be a bully, one thing is for sure, it seems that Hector is very tough in the gym, as for everything else, where there is smoke, like they say, and there seems to be a lot. Number three, Tj Dillashaw, it's no secret that TJ Dillashaw and the alpha male team.

They didn't split on the best of terms, but if some of the accusations hurled by the gym are to be believed, Dilishaw is a real problem for the training partners. After the split in 2015, members of the alpha male team began telling stories. about the behavior of his former teammates. Adam Corrigan, who only had four professional fights but trained at tam during that era, told Bloody Elbow that TJ was probably one of the worst sparring partners of all time and then explained how the former bantamweight champion would accept members of 18 to 20 years old. from the gym and I quote they got beat up so they were crying on the mat, the worst accusations came from the alpha male's top dogs, however both Uriah Faber and Cody Garbrandt accused TJ of causing Chris' concussion problems Holdsworth, something that would finally force the undefeated fighter. to retire, Garbrandt recalled the story of Holdsworth receiving a knee to the back of the head after a sparring session had already been completed and Chris himself came forward with a story about his first concussion claiming that Dilishaw fell in a takedown and then he needed it in Head Pride FC's Dillashaw style has admitted he can be aggressive during sparring, possibly too aggressive, but denies claims of intentionally hurting anyone for what it's worth.

There is a video of k1 champion Tekkaru Sagawa taking a small post-spar shot from TJ Not. exactly good partner etiquette other stories of throwing elbows during jiu jitsu practice or knees during boxing sessions are not specific, but they all paint a pretty negative picture of tj dillashaw number two matt hughes while this entry is matt named hughes because of his reputation. The scope of what is covered reflects the camp culture of the military combat system during the time he was trained there. In Matt's bizarre autobiography, he recounts some pretty horrible behavior: hitting his father and his brother being a bully in college and continuing to hit an opponent. for fun who was begging him to just take his arm and break up the fight and treat tim sylvia like absolute trash when he started at mfs according to others tim was crying after almost every session when he started and everyone except the head coach , pat militich, they wanted him.

Gone Hughes wrote several other passages about his disdain for new talent in the gym. For a good portion of the book, he came across as a huge jerk, which largely contributed to his reputation as a bully, in addition to his difficult time in Season 2. Where Dana White for several episodes described the coach's brutal methodology with bemused amazement, MFS's mentality in general towards arriving outsiders could be quite extreme. Militic has boasted that of the approximately 25 who came each month totrain, maybe two or three didn't come down. After the first week, which was filled with brutal bouts where newcomers were sometimes paired with established talents and Sherman Pindergarst destroyed he was famously KOed three times in a single session.

Ben Rothwell recalled a story of hitting the leg of a cocky newcomer saying, "The guy was a cripple." couldn't even walk Given Matt's position as the gym's top star and the way he regarded the new wrestlers who appeared there in his bio, it's safe to assume that he gave the business to more than a few during these famous training sessions. on Wednesdays with everything considered. doesn't exactly paint the best picture of the welterweight hall of fame or his legendary gym, you can chalk it up to the time period in which the lack of understanding of traumatic brain injury is considered, but being an idiot is being an idiot and that hasn't changed in the last 20 years, number one, Ken Shamrock, speaking of old school gyms whose methodology hasn't exactly aged well, let's talk about Ken Shamrock and the lion's den, at least in military school, Jim was bullied into the royal gym so he could train with the lions.

First you had to pass a ridiculous challenge more in line with the military methodology of breaking down recruits to prepare them for real wars. Those who wanted to join the gym went to a park and ran to the ground. Long jump rope sessions, 500 squats, 200 push-ups. climb 200 sit ups mile and a half run laps on steps and stairs 100 yard sprints bear crawls up a huge hill a sandbag carries the same huge hill if you didn't die during this session the next one would be difficult to train for several hours, sometimes between you and other recruits, other times just being completely worked over by lions, dead members on the mats who would continually put recruits into performances until time expired, did you survive the first day, congratulations?

Now you're a kid oh you thought you were part of the lion's den, officially not, now you're the gym until you prove yourself worthy of full membership, all the cleaning, anything that needs to be done, the kids are. doing. There's a story, I'm not even kidding, about this of young boys falling asleep and Ken whispering in their ears: I'm going to kill you tonight, so it's funny, they would also be subject to random rear-naked choke attempts by members from the lion's den. They always had to be on guard at least that's part of the mythology. Fighters like jerry bolender have said that you really need to experience it to understand it all, i guess so, because from here it sounds like a considerable amount of unnecessary things that the gym eventually did.

Set with the whole Sparta thing, but their original brutalization of new members has become the stuff of mma legends. A big thank you to my friend Luke Taylor for editing this video together. You can find him in his amazing digital art on Twitter at Cool to. A big shout out to Ben Rosette, who provided that sweet melody you heard in the intro. Check out his music by clicking the link in the description and follow him on his Benroset Instagram and Twitter page. Thanks for watching, please. Like and subscribe, we have three or more new videos for you every week, let us know what you thought of the video in the comments below, follow onpointmma on Twitter and have a wonderful day.