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All is not good with AJ Ferrari these days. The 2021 NCAA champion has been in troubled waters since the Soldier Salute incident. His wrestling career is hanging by a thread since he has yet to find a school to continue with his collegiate wrestling career. Despite that, the wrestler found a way out.
These days, AJ is making waves throughout social media for taking baby steps towards MMA. He has been adding social media posts, hinting about switching to MMA after Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling does not reveal anything about his recruitment in the roster. Along similar lines, one more hint was dropped on social media, although this one is not from AJ.
Ex-NCAA champion turned coach cheers for Ferrari
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Greg Jones, the head wrestling coach at MMA gym Kill Cliff FC, dropped AJ Ferrari’s latest snapshot in the UFC realm. Jones recently took to his official Twitter account and posted a video of Ferrari displaying his prowess in the well-known fight club. Along with a short video clip, Greg Jones Penned, “#thatgym”. In the clip, Jones was seen motivating Ferrari during the fight in the practice arena. Interestingly, Jones himself is 3x NCAA champion. Jones’ post comes after AJ Ferrari recently started testing the UFC waters.
#thatgym pic.twitter.com/sO0DcxYwVN
— Greg Jones (@CoachGJones) January 24, 2024
In his first post that shook the world, Ferrari threw a question to his fandom a few days back. “Should AJ Ferrari give up on the liberal snowflake “Christina loving” industry of NCAA Wrestling and USA Wrestling and go into the real alpha male industry of MMA!!?” Ferrari asked on his X post. Just after that, he posted a statistic that shows that wrestling has given UFC the most number of champions. After all this, Coach Greg Jones’ post only adds to the anticipation. Interestingly, AJ himself also fanned it again.
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AJ Ferrari boasts ‘wrestling squad’ on MMA arena
AJ Ferrari took it to his Instagram and posted a picture, captioning, “Old-School Money and New-Money USA🇺🇸 Wrestling Squad showing out at MMA 👊🥊practice @killcliff_fc 6️⃣ D1 National Championship Trophies Shown” The picture could not have been more interesting, given the faces visible in that.
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Apart from Greg Jones, it featured Logan Storley and Gable Steveson. Logan is an NCAA D1 bronze medalist. Steveson, on the other hand, has an even more illustrious wrestling career. Apart from being 2x NCAA D1 champion, he is also an Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo. Understandably, Greg, Ferrari, and Steveson together have 6 NCAA D1 trophies which AJ indicated in his post. Meanwhile, the presence of AJ’s brother Anthony Ferrari in the picture raises the curiosity further. Do we smell more news?
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