These Coaches Built LEGENDS in MMA
WEIGHING IN
John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all know who I'm going to pick. |
| 0:01.6 | Y'all know who I'm going to pick. |
| 0:03.2 | Y'all just hitting us up in the comments, talking about, y'all know who Josh's going to pick. Of course, y'all know who I'm going to pick. But I do have some surprises for you. I do have a lot of surprises for you. There's some big, big names that were being left off. Just honestly, I can't believe they're being left off this list. And they've done so much for the sport. |
| 0:23.5 | And I'm not just talking about now, currently. That's what the problem is. People just talk about currently. I'm talking about the history of the sport. These coaches have done huge things. And so I'm looking forward to kind of giving you guys my selection. And you guys can go ahead and run with it. Ask me questions. Hit me up, man. Throw some super chats. I appreciate it if you guys can. But look, honestly, just hit me up. Let me know what you guys think. But absolutely you all know who I'm going to pick. But just to be honest, it's a lot closer than I actually thought it was going to be. It's a lot closer. And I'll give you reasons on why I picked who I pick. But let me go ahead and just show you the list that I, they got me, it kind of sparked my interest in this whole thing, was this right here. This one right here is what got me. It got me really thinking about it. The list right there says top coaches in MMA in history. |
| 1:14.6 | Gray Jackson being number one, Javier number two, Eugene Barronman, number three, |
| 1:17.9 | Trevor Whitman, number four, Mike Brown, number five. |
| 1:21.1 | I mean, I want to get into it a little bit. |
| 1:24.3 | I want to talk about, I want to talk about how there's so, |
| 1:29.6 | there's other coaches that deserve to be on this list. And not just deserve to be on this list and not just deserve to be on this list but probably deserve to be higher than some of them that are on the top three or |
| 1:33.3 | four positions i mean there's there's some big names let me just go down the list of people |
| 1:39.0 | okay that i actually have that we're going to kind of decipher through. All right. |
| 1:44.4 | And this is wild to me is I can also put for us a hobby on here. |
| 1:50.6 | I didn't have him on here. |
| 1:51.5 | But is a hobby. |
| 1:56.6 | Okay. |
| 1:57.7 | All right. |
| 1:58.1 | So let's start off. |
| 2:00.0 | Let's go with the names that we all obviously assume. |
| 2:02.6 | You got Gray Jackson, you got Javier Mendez, Eugene Barryman, you've got Trevor Whitman, you got Mike Brown, you got Sarah Longo. |
| 2:12.1 | I don't know how you guys don't include them into there. I mean, they've got current champions. |
| 2:19.1 | You've got Faraa Hobbyabi. But there's two guys on here that I'm just, I'm baffled by that they're not actually, |
| 2:25.3 | they're not actually on this, on this at all. Is I'm surprised that Pat Militich is not on here. |
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