Colby Covington will join my ‘TUF 33’ coaching staff

Chael Sonnen can have a UFC star in his teaching workers for Season 33 of “The Final Fighter.”

Sonnen coaches “TUF 33” reverse facet his pal and podcast co-host, Daniel Cormier. The season debuts Might 27 and can function males’s flyweights and welterweights.

Sonnen has coached “TUF” on two events, however for his third time, he’s bringing alongside former interim UFC welterweight champion Colby Covington. He revealed his complete teaching workers.

“The pinnacle coach will probably be Clayton Hires,” Sonnen advised MMA Junkie. “Clayton Hires is my coach. He’s my mentor. He’s not my assistant ever. He would be the boss. I’ll have on the jersey: ‘Clayton’s Staff.’ It’ll encompass me, it should encompass ‘Cowboy’ Steve. He’s going to do what usually Mike Dolce would do by way of serving to these guys with their weight, their diet, their energy and conditioning.

“I might by no means do an ‘Final Fighter’ with out bringing the best grappler, Vinny Magalhaes – the final man to beat Gordon Ryan I’d add, and he beat Gordon simply. That’s simply the reality. It was both 7-0 or 7-1. It was not even shut. Vinny by no means bought credit score for that. Final human being to defeat Gordon Ryan. And Colby Covington – Colby goes to to return in.”

Sonnen opened up on Covington’s affect within the coaching room.

“Colby is such an exquisite mentor to individuals,” Sonnen sa8d. “That is what individuals don’t learn about him. He does all of this on the facet. He provides again, he goes to camps, he goes to varsity wrestling rooms, he goes to the coaching classes, no matter it is likely to be. He has mentored and coached many individuals. However Colby doesn’t need individuals figuring out that he’s a pleasant man, so I’m not going to wreck his gimmick. However he’s going to do a implausible job.”