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Blackzilians Leader Answers Rashad Evans Plus a Source Reveals Real Conflict

Blackzilians Leader Answers Rashad Evans Plus a Source Reveals Real Conflict

 

 

Several days ago Rashad Evans compared the drama in the Blackzilians team quite vividly – he said it’s comparable to “10 High schools Put Together”.

Now leader of the team, Glenn Robinson is shooting back at Evans saying the team will go on. Now many have considered Rashad Evans the best in the sport, at least from 2013 until 2015 but the problems between the leader of the team Glenn Robinson and Henri Hooft (who was one of the top coaches) have put a strain on his training.

Following Evans’s revealing statement Robinson is ready to take a stand.

“Blackzilians are going to continue, and we’re still going to be an incredible organization,” Robinson on Monday told MMAjunkie.

Apparently Robinson admits he played a part in a long period of uncertainty but his actions were to preserve the longterm future of the team. He said when a developer offered to buy him out of an 800.000$ obligation to the Training Center facility (In Boca Raton Florida) it provided ample opportunity for a fresh start for the team. But the transition didn’t work out smoothly which opened up the cracks in the team with several key members training elsewhere with Henri Hooft. Robinson said when several months of meetings with Hooft on a new employment deal didn’t bear fruit, and Hooft continued to work with fighters in a separate facility, the writing was on the wall.

“I believe he already knew what his plan was,” Robinson said. “Five weeks ago, I knew we weren’t going to come to terms. So I needed to let the dust settle before I went and lost a bunch of money.”

“There’s some really good people, and for those people, I want to stay and see through what I started,” he said. “And there’s some people that I don’t have any negative feelings toward, but I just don’t want to work with. This allowed everyone to get their way.

“This business is run on emotion, so if you start making certain changes, it’s a domino effect. So when we realized we weren’t going to come to terms with (Hooft), we said let’s let the dust settle. I have no ill will toward anybody. I’ll just try to keep it small and bring in good people that fit our culture and are about team and not about how ‘I deserve.’”

 

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Meanwhile a source revealed to bloodyelbow about the new founded Combat Club:

 

“If management could have just managed and stayed out of the gym, and if coaches were allowed to just coach to the best of their ability, without being influenced or told how to do it or what was expected of them, and just allowed fighters to keep doing what they did and let their coaches tell them how to do it, this could have been avoided,” said the source.

“That stuff starts at the top, and when lack of communication starts trickling down, miscommunication starts trickling down, behind closed doors, people start to become, maybe a little suspicious, maybe a little insecure, or always feeling like they are fighting for a job, looking over their shoulder, and that kind of thing created a relatively hostile environment.”

“The coaches and the fighters always tried to stay on the same page as much as possible,” continued the source. “But there are certain alliances, certain fighters who rely more on management and some who rely more on coaches. Certain coaches would rely more on management, certain coaches would rely more on their relationship with fighters. I think that’s where the drama came into play.”

In the end the source sums up:

“It looks like Combat Club will really not be focusing on this team mentality, but rather a facility that has the best services for any fighter who wants to use them,” said the source.