If you were watching closely last Saturday night you might have seen him. He was there in Ian Machado Garry’s corner, whispering in the welterweight’s ear between rounds, chiding him for his risky use of the wrong half-guard in the final round, fine-tuning the already pretty finely tuned points of the fighter’s transition game.
Of course, in order to know who you were looking at and why he still matters so much to mixed martial arts, you’d need to know at least a little bit of the history of this sport.
Or you could also ask Reinier de Ridder, who fights Bo Nickal in the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night event in Des Moines, Iowa.