{"id":37335,"date":"2026-03-22T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Fighting-Nerds-coach-If-Volkanovski-is-in-Ruffys-corner-I-dont-feel-comfortable-200553"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:56:41","slug":"fighting-nerds-coach-if-volkanovski-is-in-ruffys-corner-i-dont-feel-comfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/fighting-nerds-coach-if-volkanovski-is-in-ruffys-corner-i-dont-feel-comfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Nerds coach: If Volkanovski is in Ruffy\u2019s corner, I don\u2019t feel comfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fighting-nerds-coach-if-volkanovski-is-in-ruffys-corner-i-dont-feel-comfortable.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Mauricio Ruffy will have to figure out his corner situation for<br \/>\nhis next fight. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The fact that <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jean-Silva-239947\">Jean Silva<\/a><br \/>\nwas invited to attend <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-270-March-21-110783\"><br \/>\nUFC London<\/a> was viewed by some as a way to pressure <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Lerone-Murphy-209721\">Lerone<br \/>\nMurphy<\/a> to finish their title eliminator before the fifth<br \/>\nround.<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t happen, however, as the Russian won a majority decision<br \/>\nafter 25 competitive minutes. That result kept <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jean-Silva-239947\">Jean Silva<\/a>\u2019s<br \/>\nhopes alive of getting the next featherweight title shot and<br \/>\ngreatly reduced <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mauricio-Ruffy-192545\">Mauricio<br \/>\nRuffy<\/a>\u2019s chances of doing his training camp at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/stats\/fightfinder?association=The+Fighting+Nerds\"><br \/>\nThe Fighting Nerds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> In an <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Pablo+Sucupira+no+corner+mauricio+ruffy&amp;sca_esv=2ddfd4a28ffdbe96&amp;udm=7&amp;sxsrf=ANbL-n4ZExTzgxjPPamP7Czg6CxpAyfGhg:1774181030856&amp;source=lnms&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwia7PGwu7OTAxUPHbkGHSB7BL8Q0pQJegQIAhAK&amp;biw=1536&amp;bih=738&amp;dpr=1.25#fpstate=ive&amp;ip=1&amp;vld=cid:195b0f12,vid:JduXaEuBCss,st:0\">interview<\/a> with Brazilian journalist Diego Ribas<br \/>\npublished on Ag.Fight\u2019s YouTube channel last Thursday, Pablo<br \/>\nSucupira revealed details of his last conversation with Ruffy about<br \/>\nhis problems with Silva and the possibility of doing his camp for<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Chandler-50829\">Michael<br \/>\nChandler<\/a> at The Fighting Nerds. Sucupira said he wouldn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nany problem training Ruffy at Cornerman&#8217;s facilities, which are<br \/>\noften used by Fighting Nerds athletes.<\/p>\n<h2>A Company, Not a Family<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIn modern MMA, a team is no longer a family, but a company, which<br \/>\nhas several families,\u201d Sucupira said. \u201cMy role is to manage this<br \/>\ncompany. I don&#8217;t need Jean and Ruffy to be friends. The fact that<br \/>\ntheir friendship is strained doesn&#8217;t prevent them from continuing<br \/>\nto respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sucupira, who revealed that he will have a more definitive<br \/>\nconversation with Ruffy on that topic this week, made one condition<br \/>\nclear: UFC featherweight champ <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a> can\u2019t be part of his corner at the White House<br \/>\nevent<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Volkanovski is in his corner in the next fight, I don&#8217;t feel<br \/>\ncomfortable being there. After all, I&#8217;m preparing an athlete to<br \/>\nfight him,\u201d said Sucupira, who is rooting for a happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI owe everything I&#8217;ve achieved as a coach to these four (Silva,<br \/>\nRuffy, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Carlos-Prates-95593\">Carlos<br \/>\nPrates<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Caio-Borralho-188043\">Caio<br \/>\nBorralho<\/a>). It&#8217;s been more than 10 years of working together. I<br \/>\nhave enormous admiration and respect for all of them and I would<br \/>\nlike to be by their side all the way to the belt, but I&#8217;m not going<br \/>\nto change the rules to keep anyone on the team.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Ruffy will have to figure out his corner situation for his next fight. | Getty\/UFC The fact that Jean Silva was invited to attend UFC London was viewed by some as a way to pressure Movsar Evloev and Lerone Murphy to finish their title eliminator before the fifth round. That didn\u2019t happen, however, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}