Javier Mendez talks whole stable

Jonathan Shrager catches up with Javier Mendez, the esteemed head coach of AKA gym to discuss the latest on his impressive roster of elite talent, including:

•Rockhold’s mentality heading into Weidman fight, his elite wrestling due to training with both Cain and DC simultaneously for the first time, and the misconceptions surrounding his “party boy” image.

•Velasquez’s rematch with Werdum, the discrepancy between “altitude” Cain and “sea level” Cain.

•Cormier’s prospective rematch with Jones and the likelihood of it transpiring at Madison Square Garden, how the rematch is approach, Jon Jones’ mindset.

•The misfortune of Khabib Magomedov’s recurrent injuries and his potential to be “the greatest lightweight ever.”

•Magomedov’s ability to become one of the world’s elite heavyweights on the premise he summonses a little more aggression.