Belfort cites ‘personal issues’ at Team Tompkins
Coach SeanTompkins, who left Xtreme Couture this past October for the neighboring TapouT Training Center, this past week confirmed the…
Coach SeanTompkins, who left Xtreme Couture this past October for the neighboring TapouT Training Center, this past week confirmed the split with Vitor Belfort:
“Vitor has done this before. Sometimes he gets a little clouded in his head. … Vitor just wanders and … goes where, ‘What’s happening? What’s famous?'”
“Vitor isn’t loyal to anybody. We’ve seen it before.”
Belfort responded today:
“Every fighter has his own mind (and) represents himself, of course, but you have people around you (who) help to make decisions. I’ve been training four years, I think, at Xtreme Couture, and I feel good over there.
“When [Tompkins] was last there, we tried to work together. But he’s doing his thing. He was doing his team, and he wants to do it the way he wants. And I felt like I still wanted to work over there (at Xtreme Couture), but I just thought it wouldn’t have worked out. They had, like, personal issues and stuff, and I don’t take things personal. I take things professional, and I met with him and … I really talked to him, and I [said], ‘You’re going to this direction. I think for me what is better is that direction,’ and (it was) not just myself that made the decision.”
“I have people around me … that are really important to my life. So it was a very easy decision. But the only thing that was hard, of course, (is that) you want things to work out. But you have to take life easy. You can’t make a big thing of things that happen.”