Last week, the UFC held three back-to-back events in which World Series of Fighting featherweight champion and Team Alpha Male member Lance Palmer cornered a different teammate each night.
On Dec. 10, Palmer stepped in The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to corner strawweight prospect Paige VanZant, who was set to take on her biggest test yet, Rose Namajunas.
Namajunas proved her place in the division, dominating VanZant for almost five entire rounds before securing a rear-naked choke.
But even in defeat, Palmer believes the outcome will be positive for VanZant.
"It's just one of those fights where you become a better fighter just from being a part of that fight," said Palmer on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "She's 21 years old; she has a lot of learning to do."
Palmer says VanZant needs to work on her wrestling and believes her teammates can push her more.
"A lot of things that she could work on is obviously her wrestling, you know, her partners have to push her a little harder," said Palmer. "They need to push her harder and make her work harder instead of just kind of letting her go through the flow at practice.
"There needs to be that kind of gray area that you don't step over but you push the limit a little bit... Obviously, we're not out there to hurt each other in practice, but I think she needs more intensity from her sparring partners and her drilling partners because that's really how you get better," said Palmer.
The following night, Palmer returned to the same venue. This time, it was to corner UFC featherweight contender Chad Mendes, who faced former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.
Unlike VanZant's fight, it ended quickly.
"He just got caught," said Palmer.
Edgar knocked out Mendes at 2:28 of round 1. This marked Mendes' second KO/TKO loss in a row.
"I think he's alright and he'll bounce back. But it puts him in a weird position in the division, because I don't really know where they go next for him here," said Palmer. "I know he will take some time off and he'll come back strong."
On his last night as a cornerman for the trio of UFC events, Palmer cornered the man whom they call "The General."
But this time "The General" Urijah Faber scored a unanimous decision victory for Team Alpha Male by outpointing Frankie Saenz.
"We knew that he would go in there and perform regardless of who won and lost the nights before. It was good to end on a good note and finish the weekend with a ‘W,'" explained Palmer.
After the win, at the post-fight press conference, Faber made it clear that he would fight former Team Alpha Male member and current UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw.
Being ranked third in the division, having a three-fight wining streak at bantamweight and having beef with Dillashaw, there is a good chance that fight may come to fruition.
But there is also a good chance you won't see Palmer in either corner.
"I still have a good relationship with TJ," said Palmer. "I think the thing with him and Urijah is a little different because Urijah brought him in and that's just a different thing.
"I think in that situation I wouldn't really corner either. I'll probably just take a back seat and watch the fight," Palmer continued. "A lot of us have talked about that' I don't know who would corner who... Obviously, TJ has his Team Elevation people now, so they will probably corner him, but I don't know who would corner Faber."
For now, the next time Palmer will return to Las Vegas, he'll be doing the fighting instead. "The Party" is set to defend his WSOF featherweight title against Alexandre de Almeida at WSOF 26.
This fight will serve as the main event of that card that takes place this Friday.