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 crew.
Julius Creed — actual title Jacob Kasper — was revealed as certainly one of Cormier’s coaches on Tuesday and his addition comes simply in the future 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 kind a tag crew that’s a part of a bunch referred to as American Made.
Whereas his profession now facilities round skilled wrestling, Kasper is definitely a really completed collegiate and beginner 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 crew in 2016.
Kasper isn’t any stranger to working with Cormier after he joined his coaching camp when the previous two-division UFC champion was getting ready for a struggle in opposition to 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 sometimes performs on Mondays after which often Saturdays if the promotion is holding a premium dwell 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 Prepare 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 in opposition to Chael Sonnen as coaches with a bunch of males’s flyweights and welterweights making up the solid with the sequence debuting on Could 27 on ESPN2 and streaming on ESPN+.
