MMA is about individuals, but most UFC champions are forged in strong camps that bring in many great fighters. In some cases, as with Jose Aldo and Renan Barao, steel sharpens steel, and two titleholders are born from the same team.
In a very different atmosphere from boxing, MMA hardly sees any elite fighters building training camps around one man or woman.
UFC champions Chris Weidman, Johny Hendricks and Ronda Rousey aren’t surrounded by incredibly deep teams like those that will follow, but Serra-Longo Fight Team, Team Takedown and Hayastan MMA still provide those respective titleholders with quality training partners who also compete at high levels.
Fight teams are always gaining and losing fighters, but here are the 10 best camps in MMA as things currently stand.