yeah, it wasn't anyone I know.
My closest connections to the big show are:
- I was college teammates with Matt Hamill.
- one instructor at my gym, whom I am good friends with, is a pro fighter at 145 lbs and hopes to make it to the UFC once he drops to 135. He was actually an alternate to be on TUF 3 or 4 years ago - flew out to Vegas and everything. He has gone a few times to train at Team Alpha Male with Faber and Mendes and those guys.
- there is a coach at FitNHB in Albequerque, NM that I've known since first grade. I guess he has one or two guys make it to UFC, but his guys mostly fight out of King of the Cage.
- I know a few guys who have fought in the XFC promotion which used to air on Axis TV.
i'm sure if you ask the instructor he will give the politically correct answer, but i would love to hear his thoughts on what that team is like. Especially what happened with Ludwig and there break up. I have to think Faber can be real deuchy and i just wonder if he is actually a good dude or if he is even worse when the cameras aren't around. I know the whole thing with Ludiwg leaving had quite a bit to do with Faber and him not seeing eye to eye
I don't even know who Ludwig is, or what this dust-up is about. He came back with some new techniques and a black eye, and a week later destroyed an 11-2 bellator fighter.
He said that one problem with Alpha Male is like half of the lightish fighters in the UFC train there, so it's becoming difficult to match-make - they don't like to match guys up who all train in the same gym.