If the fight was gonna go to the ground, if it was the Khabib (Nurmagomedov) fight, yeah, maybe there’s gonna be a lot of ground work, maybe it makes sense for television to mic me.
Especially in a standup fight, I shouldn’t have been mic’d, because I knew this was gonna be a standup fight. I’m the guy that just throws in s*it on the side. That’s a guy that should be talking to the fighter that’s sitting down. I’m not Trevor Wittman, that guy’s amazing. Never wanted to be and even to this day, that’s on me, never been.
“I have never been a head MMA coach ever in my life,” Bravo said on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. What he didn’t expect was that he would have to try to talk “El Cucuy” back into the fight after it became apparent that Gaethje was in control heading into the final round.Īs experienced as he is with working with some of MMA’s best, mid-fight coaching was another world for Bravo. Eddie Bravo is one of the most respected voices in the world of jiu-jitsu, but even he had to admit that motivating a faltering fighter in a UFC title bout was a bridge too far for him.Īs part of Tony Ferguson’s team for his interim lightweight championship fight against Justin Gaethje at UFC 249, Bravo was brought in for his grappling expertise and close relationship with Ferguson.
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