Phil Baroni confirms there was NEVER a Hammer House gym…

It looks like Chael Sonnen may have been on to something when he said that Mark Coleman doesn’t really have a gym and Team Hammer House is fictional.

Phil Baroni confirmed with our friends over at MiddleEasy.com that there never was a “Hammer House” gym, it was only a publicity stunt that PRIDE started.
“There’s no gym Hammerhouse. There’s no gym in Ohio. There’s no–you know Coleman’s out here in Vegas training me. He’s staying at the Palace Station. There’s no team. I never went to train with Team Hammerhouse. It’s just bullshit. Coleman’s just a good marketer. He’s telling me he wants to open up a Hammerhouse gym in Ohio. He’d like to do that some day. It was just a bunch of guys fighting under a flag you know what I mean? They didn’t train together. I never really trained with Coleman. He’s way too big. He would corner me and we’d have conversations on the phone. It’s not a gym. It was something in Japan that they marketed. They just made the team more than what it is. There is no Hammerhouse. Hammerhouse is a punching bag on Coleman’s porch. I’ve seen pictures of it. It’s just an old punching bag. I’ve never even been to Coleman’s house.”



Source:
http://urdirt.com/2010/02/03/phil-baroni-confirms-there-was-never-a-hammer-house-gym-its-still-real-to-me-dammit/

woah so the videos i use to watch of coleman randlemnan and some big oaf were in a public gym?

I'm pretty sure Baroni is talking out of his ass. Team Hammerhouse existed, but stopped somewhere during Pride's run. Hammerhouse goes back before Baroni was even fighting.


Bird come lay it down.

HammerHouse was around as early as UFC 12, Maybe there never was a gym
what Baroni said about alot of guys fighting under 1 flag sounds about right

It would actually make more sense if there never was a HammerHouse gym cause I remember when Coleman came and worked with Lions Den he couldnt believe all the shit they did

He was even quoted as saying They tore his ego down

To me whether there was a HammerHouse gym or not

Hammer House was one of the most well known MMA Camps in the early days. And one of the best
It was Lions Den, R.A.W., and HammerHouse

Know Pride jsut making shit up wouldnt surprise me at all, but reguardless what Baroni says

anyone on here want to argue that Coleman and Randleman werent on the same team?
Didnt think so

Miletich came after the 3 camps I mentioned

and Im confusing myself
was Kerr with R.A.W. or HammerHouse I think he was with Randy at R.A.W.

kerr was with Bas some aswell..

miletech owned the other camps