Coach Eric Nicksick admitted he couldn’t help but be in awe of legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas, who recently paid a visit to Xtreme Couture. Atlas linked up with Francis Ngannou to help sharpen the UFC heavyweight’s boxing, but the Cameroonian contender’s head coach Nicksick also got the opportunity to benefit from Atlas’ decades of experience of coaching in the fight game. View this post on Instagram Thank you for sharing a bit of your knowledge with me last night @teddy_atlas let’s get some more rounds in again soon A post shared by Francis Ngannou (@francisngannou) on Sep 28, 2020 at 7:32pm PDT “For me personally, Teddy hit more of the coaching side in understanding the timing with your family, when to say ‘no’ to certain people,” Nicksick told MMA Junkie Radio. “He spoke a lot of things that I see, and I experience, but he helped me understand a little bit more and how to package it, how to express my feelings to the fighters – it was absolutely gold

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How Teddy Atlas’ influence is helping make Francis Ngannou – and his coach – better – MMA Junkie

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