Team Quest, one of the most legendary squads in the annals of mixed martial arts, began inside what Randy Couture describes as a “damp, dank, wet, old” van conversion hut in Gresham, Ore.
Around 1998, Robert Follis began managing the gym he co-owned at that point with Couture and Matt Lindland. Finances were better, so the fighters and coaches decided to put up sheetrock for insulation inside the fairly dilapidated space.
It was a “horrible idea,” Couture told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. All the wrestling and jiu-jitsu and striking was not conducive to the plan.