Vitor Belfort Leaves Trainer Shawn Tompkins Ahead of UFC 126

Vitor Belfort Leaves Trainer Shawn Tompkins Ahead of UFC 126

Vitor Belfort Leaves Trainer Shawn Tompkins Ahead of UFC 126

Vitor Belfort Leaves Trainer Shawn Tompkins Ahead of UFC 126
UFC middleweight contender Vitor Belfort has parted ways with Shawn Tompkins, his striking coach since 2008, to return to Xtreme Couture just weeks before challenging middleweight champ Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 126 on Feb. 5.

UFC middleweight contender Vitor Belfort has parted ways with Shawn Tompkins, his striking coach since 2008, to return to Xtreme Couture just weeks before challenging middleweight champ Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 126 on Feb. 5.

“Vitor has done this before,” Tompkins recently told Mauro Ranallo (via Fight Opinion) Vitor sometimes gets a little clouded in his head. It’s not that he brought in Mike Tyson or anything like that. Vitor just wanders and goes where what’s happening, what’s famous, what’s popular. Mike Tyson isn’t teaching him anything. Neither is the other eight gyms...


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