Greg Jackson: I won’t be part of my guys fighting each other
Mixed martial arts is an individual sport, but many of the best fighters train together, and the bonds that form…
Mixed martial arts is an individual sport, but many of the best fighters train together, and the bonds that form among training partners are increasingly becoming a headache for UFC President Dana White. White says that he’ll force top fighters to fight each other, even if that means two training partners in the Octagon. But many fighters say they’ll refuse to fight friends, and the coach at one of the best MMA gyms, Greg Jackson, says he’ll have nothing to do with two of his fighters taking each other on.
“I certainly won’t be a part of one of my guys fighting another one of my guys,” Jackson says in the above video. “But the UFC is Dana’s organization so he can do whatever he wants. … That’ll be between the fighters — for myself I just stay out of it. It’s their organization and we work for them, so it would be a matter of what the fighters decide. I really think when push comes to shove the fighters won’t give in on that. I hope so.”
