[SonnyakaPig]

Thank you for posting such a thorough guide to cornering fighters. You really did an awesome job.

I cornered a professional fighter named Marcus Ajian a few months ago in Long Beach, Ca. He won by guillotine in the first round. Your guide would have been very helpful to me prior to that fight. But I will definitely print your posts out so I can save them as an excellent reference.

Marcus later tried out for the upcoming season of TUF and made it but some things happened at the last minute and he was unable to continue on. Look out for him though, he's really talented.

Edit: Btw, I respect what you said about not explaining complicated new moves right before the fight. Prior to Marcus's fight, we lightly drilled the basics. I had a buddy of mine work on the ground with him because my back was bad; I worked the pads.

Marcus has an excellent squeeze and he favors the guillotine so we practived some set-ups for that move and also some defenses. He also told me to watch the fight closely and to shout out instructions if necessary. He said he would listen.

Well, he went out there, and when the fight hit the ground he ended up using one of the guillotine defenses that we covered before the fight and he sunk a guillotine of his own and squeezed hard when I told him it was working. So we had a really good fight that night. Marcus of course deserves all of the credit but as a team we worked well. I felt privileged to corner him.