Daniel Cormier introduced in a various group of coaches to assist him on The Final Fighter 33 together with a present WWE celebrity becoming a member of his staff.
Julius Creed — actual identify Jacob Kasper — was revealed as one in every of Cormier’s coaches on Tuesday and his addition comes simply sooner or later after he appeared on WWE’s Monday Night time Uncooked. In WWE, Kasper joins together with his actual life brother Drew Kasper aka Brutus Creed to type a tag staff that’s a part of a bunch generally known as American Made.
Whereas his profession now facilities round skilled wrestling, Kapser is definitely a really achieved collegiate and novice wrestler after rising up in Ohio after which attending Duke College. There, Kasper was a two-time NCAA All-American wrestler earlier than trying to make the U.S. Olympic wrestling staff in 2016.
Kasper is not any stranger to working with Cormier after he joined his coaching camp when the previous two-division UFC champion was making ready for a struggle towards Jon Jones.
It’s unclear if Kasper goes to be splitting time between WWE and his time teaching on TUF however as a present member of the Monday Night time Uncooked roster, he usually performs on Mondays after which normally Saturdays if the promotion is holding a premium stay occasion.
Along with Kasper’s inclusion as one of many coaches, Cormier additionally introduced in UFC veteran Michael Chiesa in addition to two very skilled head coaches in Bob Cook dinner, who works out of American Kickboxing Academy, and John Wooden, who owns and operates Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas.
Cormier additionally included his longtime boxing coach Rosendo Sanchez and kickboxing veteran Tiago Beowulf.
The brand new season of The Final Fighter pits Cormier towards Chael Sonnen as coaches with a bunch of males’s flyweights and welterweights making up the forged with the sequence debuting on Could 27 on ESPN2 and streaming on ESPN+.
