Justin Buchholz is no longer the head coach of Team Alpha Male due to a reorganization of the Sacramento, CA-based gym’s program.

IFL Fighting was first on the report. Buchholz himself mentioned the shakeup on the latest edition of Stud Show Radio (watch below).

“I am no longer the head coach of Team Alpha Male," Buchholz said. "I had a system that I put in place last year that I was in charge of and I stuck to and made things happen and we have gone to a different system. You know, [TAM founder Urijah Faber] explained it to me that there are five head coaches. Everyone is like a head coach, but I am no longer a head coach. I run the Muay Thai program. I’m not really sure [who is running the MMA practices].”

Buchholz is part of a string of changes at Team Alpha Male. The gym has seen multiple fighters leave the team for other primary training options, including Paige VanZant and Joseph Benavidez. With the latest change, you have to wonder if it will have an impact on bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt, who defends his bantamweight title on Saturday, Nov. 4, against TJ Dillashaw at UFC 217 in New York City. 

For his part, Buchholz seems less than thrilled with the shakeup, a point he made clear. 

"When I was in charge of the program, from the beginning of last year, [we won] 17 f*cking belts in one year — from unranked to bantamweight champion, three, four new guys in the UFC, belts up the ass, 56 fights cornered by me, 20 of them being UFC fights," he said. 

Buchholz had plenty to do with this success. 

"I changed up the program. I was in charge there," Buchholz said. "Urijah was fighting. We had a successful comeback as a team when we were written off by a lot of people. It’s easy to forget when we were in a hardship and what we accomplished as a team and what I accomplished as a head coach in 2016. 

"It hasn’t really been done by anyone else. I really understood where I was at and what I had done as a head coach on Dec. 30 when Cody won the title [at UFC 207]."