5 Biggest public disputes between MMA fighters and their training camps

#3 Donald Cerrone and the Jackson Wink MMA Academy

Donald Cerrone (left) fights Mike Perry (right) later this year

On a recent edition of the JRE podcast, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone sent shockwaves throughout the Mixed Martial Arts community by revealing his fallout with his longtime camp at the Jackson Wink MMA Academy. Speaking to podcast host and veteran UFC commentator Joe Rogan, Cerrone claimed that Jackson Wink is no longer the same gym anymore.

Cerrone continued that after Mike Winklejohn took over the majority of proceedings at the gym from Greg Jackson, it began going downhill.

Cerrone added that nowadays, any random "bum off the street" is allowed to walk into the gym, spar and train with world-class fighters such as Holly Holm--simply because Winklejohn encourages people to pay a few bucks, allowing them to train with world class fighters, which more often than not disrupts the fighters' training routines.

Winklejohn, on his part, has fired back at Cerrone--alleging that it was the latter who was in fact causing a divide at the Jackson Wink MMA Academy. Here are a few excerpts from Winklejohn's statements regarding the same (*courtesy--MMAJunkie)--

"Cowboy is not loyal to anybody in the gym. He’s on his own. He does his own thing. He has not, from what I can remember in the last 10 years, ever helped anybody out with their own camp. He’s as narcissistic as they come.”

Cerrone's separation from the gym is said to have been caused after Winklejohn and the other coaches at Jackson Wink, decided to corner Mike Perry for the latter's fight against Cerrone this November.

Apparently, Cowboy took offence to the fact that despite him being loyal to the gym for the past several years, they chose to corner the newly-acquired trainee Perry, instead of siding with Cerrone for the fight.