Top Ten MMA Fight Teams: #3 – American Kickboxing Academy

Mixed martial arts is about as solitary of a sport as you can find – once that cage door closes, a fighter has no one else to depend on but himself.  It is just him (or her) versus their opponent, mano a mano.  But while the sport is not a team-based one, that doesn’t mean a fighter does it all on his own – he/she depends greatly on their fight team to train them, coach them, encourage them, push them to their limits.  But what if MMA was a team sport (like it was in the old IFL)?  What fight team would be the most successful?  

To try to answer that question, we are ranking the top ten MMA fight teams, based on the current fighters on the team.  Next up #3: American Kickboxing Academy

 
American Kickboxing Academy
San Jose, California

Luke Rockhold – Strikeforce Middleweight Champion – #8 Ranked Middleweight
Cain Velasquez – UFC Heavyweight – #2 Ranked Heavyweight
Daniel Cormier – Strikeforce Heavyweight – #4 Ranked Heavyweight
Gray Maynard – UFC Lightweight – #4 Ranked Lightweight
Jon Fitch – UFC Welterweight – #6 Ranked Welterweight

Even having a top talent like Josh Koscheck leave the team (contentiously, I might add) doesn’t diminish AKA’s ranking as one of the premier fight teams in mixed martial arts.  They currently have five fighters ranked among the ten best in their respective weight classes, with plenty of other top talent waiting in the wings (King Mo, Mike Swick, and Khabib Nurmagomedov among them).  AKA has been a dominant force in the sport for years and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.