Former Team Alpha Male Coach Destroys Urijah Faber, ‘No Love’s’ Corner After UFC 235

Cody Garbrandt is on a jaw-dropping downward slide. His longtime Team Alpha Male is receiving a ton of flack for it.

‘No Love’ was knocked out in the first round of a head-scratching brawl with Pedro Munhoz on the main card of last weekend’s UFC 235 from Las Vegas. Fans, media members, and Garbrandt’s coaches alike were flabbergasted he had resorted to the same exact style that had gotten him knocked out by TJ Dillashaw in his previous two title bouts.

Indeed, his Team Alpha Male cornermen couldn’t believe he stood in the pocket and traded right hands in an all-out brawl. Watch them react with varying degrees of disgust in the UFC 235: The Thrill and the Agony video below:

👀 Even Bruce Buffer was pissed at Cody Garbrandt! pic.twitter.com/JzqdK1aMPy

— Darren Russell (@DarrenRussell_) March 6, 2019

A prominent onetime member of TAM fanned the fire this week when former head coach Justin Buchholz threw shade at the corner’s abilities – or lack thereof:

How not to corner.

— Justin Buchholz (@JustinBuchholz) March 6, 2019

‘No Love’s’ cornerman Chris Holdsworth responded to Buchholz with a venomous barb. Buchholz clapped back with his own vitriol:

Must be rough having all your fighters lose. https://t.co/bgxXcxNwuH

— Justin Buchholz (@JustinBuchholz) March 6, 2019

Buchholz Trolls The Team

But Buchholz elaborated further on the topic in an interview with TSN (via MMA Fighting) this week. He noted that the downfall was largely due to coaching. No Love’ didn’t go all-out brawling when he fought Dominick Cruz for the bantamweight gold, for example:

“They make a situation that is kind of simple, way too simple,” Buchholz said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, he decided to throw caution to the wind.’ Well where was that guy, where was the guy who threw caution to the wind, kill or be killed, I’m just gonna go run across the cage holding my right hand out with my hands down, where was that guy when he fought Dominick Cruz?

“. . . It’s not kill or be killed. It’s win this fight. Get the W. It just pisses me off when people say, ‘Oh he just got emotional. He just decided to do this.’ That’s all from training! That’s all from the camp. That’s all from the cues you receive from your coach.”

On Faber?

Buchholz then pointed the finger right at TAM owner Urijah Faber. He stated he had ruined the team. If you don’t believe what he claims, he said, you need only look at ‘No Love’s’ results against true top opposition:

“If you think of it like football, it’s like the owner of the team got jealous of the head coach and then showed up on the field and started coaching instead of sitting back and kicking his feet up saying, ‘I started the team, I own the team, everything you do makes my shine brighter’” Buchholz said. “But some people can’t understand that because they can’t see past their own ego.

“. . . You can say whatever you want but the results speak for themselves. Cody’s only fights against top-10 opponents are Pedro Munhoz, T.J. Dillashaw, and then Dominick Cruz, and Dominick Cruz was the best out of all of them and he master-classed him but he couldn’t get past those other guys. It has a lot to do with coaching, the program, it’s all that.”