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- Updated: August 6, 2016
Teruto Ishihara made the jump from the Team Alpha Male gym in Japan to the official TAM headquarters in Sacramento, California, ahead of his bout at UFC Fight Night 92 in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday evening. The UFC featherweight trained at Urijah Faber’s Ultimate Fitness for his entire fight camp with some of the best lighter-weight fighters in the world, including the aforementioned Faber, Chad Mendes, and Cody Garbrandt, among others.
Heading into his third Octagon appearance, the level of Ishihara’s opposition is constantly rising. Ishihara decided to train at Team Alpha Male full-time for this camp because he believes he needs to train with higher-level fighters to be able to compete with his opponents now.
“First of all, Team Alpha Male is a great gym,” Ishihara told BloodyElbow.com’s The MMA Circus through a translator. “He felt that, after the Julian [Erosa] fight, he felt that he wouldn’t be able to survive in UFC if he didn’t take the next step up.”
Ishihara hopes to train in the United States as long as he can, legally.
“His whole fight camp was at Team Alpha Male this time,” the translator said. “He wants to stay in Sacramento as long as his visa doesn’t expire. He’s gonna be going back to Japan here and there, but for the most part, he’s going to be in Sacramento.”
Ishihara often skipped practice and wasn’t a hard worker when he trained in Japan full-time — partying and picking up women …
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