Sage Northcutt’s dad is not the greatest coach, according to one sparring partner

Mark Northcutt made an awful first impression on Muay Thai star Ilya Grad.

UFC starlet Sage Northcutt (7-1, 2-1 UFC) will be hoping to bounce back from his first professional loss when he takes on Enrique Marin (8-3, 0-1 UFC) at the landmark UFC 200 event next month.

Super Sage enters into this bout off the back of that tough submission loss to Bryan Barberena, which he put down to a strep throat. The last time we saw Marin inside the Octagon, he was losing a split decision to a fighter who has the nickname “Perry”.

So this fight is pretty much a coin toss.

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One of Northcutt’s recent training sessions for the fight, was labelled “a disaster” by his sparring partner, Israeli Muay Thai champion Ilya Grad.

Grad let fly at the 20-year-old’s father on Instagram over his behaviour during a sparring session. He claimed that Mark Northcutt even ended his son’s session early after accusing Grad of trying to hurt him.

The Muay Thai star said he had never seen “such bad coaching in my life” and advised Sage to stay away from his father during fight camps in the future.

@supersagenorthcutt came in for sparring today preparing for UFC 200. I want to say something nice about the kid but oh my what a disaster it was. His dad is probably the worst coach I’ve seen in my life. He walks around talking shit from the start like we owe him something, then he interrupting his real coach during the rounds and gives poor Sage negative pet talk in between! Then at the 3rd round when I was just warming up and started pushing the pace they accused me of trying to hurt him and retired him from sparring! ? – When I train someone for a fight I want to put them in difficult situations, as you would in a real fight but these clowns just want him to do well and when he doesn’t they accused me of some shit and made a scene! Never have I seen such bad coaching in my life! You have great potential kid, If you smart tell your dad to stay away from your fight camp so you could actually get some training done! Good luck for 200 ✌️

A photo posted by Ilya Grad (@ilyagrad) on Jun 7, 2016 at 3:46pm PDT

“Sage Northcutt came in for sparring today preparing for UFC 200. I want to say something nice about the kid but oh my what a disaster it was.

His dad is probably the worst coach I’ve seen in my life. He walks around talking shit from the start like we owe him something, then he interrupting his real coach during the rounds and gives poor Sage negative pet talk in between! Then at the 3rd round when I was just warming up and started pushing the pace they accused me of trying to hurt him and retired him from sparring! 

When I train someone for a fight I want to put them in difficult situations, as you would in a real fight but these clowns just want him to do well and when he doesn’t they accused me of some shit and made a scene!

“Never have I seen such bad coaching in my life! You have great potential kid, If you smart tell your dad to stay away from your fight camp so you could actually get some training done!

Good luck for 200″