Valuetainment - “You CAN’T Talk Like That To Armenians” - Arman Tsarukyan CLARIFIES The Line In Trash Talk

00:00:00.000 what do you think normal people don't know about armenians that there are certain rules with

00:00:07.040 armenians you can't curse you know what i'm saying like there's certain certain things

00:00:11.680 with armenians that if you say for whatever reason we tend to get more angry than other

00:00:17.360 communities why do you think that is uh because of uh the place where we grew up

00:00:24.880 and the second one is a genetic uh testosterone that we have it's from there coming you think

00:00:31.840 that's what it is yeah for sure yeah because yeah because if you go to armenia i mean the

00:00:37.760 all the places armenia georgia dagestan chechnya it's like kind of same culture everybody has

00:00:47.040 if you go there in the village the the kids is fighting to each other and they grow up like this

00:00:52.560 And then when they go to the city, they have that mentality.

00:00:59.800 That's why the best fighters, they're coming from there.

00:01:03.380 If they're going to sign a lot of Dagestani, Chechen, Georgian, Armenian fighters,

00:01:09.980 they're going to take over all UFC.

00:01:12.340 No, but what I'm asking is, I'm asking more about from the side of,

00:01:17.460 you know, like in Americans, they'll say, hey, mother, you know.

00:01:21.340 they just talk and like you just talk yeah but but but if you do that too even when connor was

00:01:27.760 doing it to khabib khabib's like listening to everything he's saying says you don't talk about

00:01:33.060 my father my religion nothing like that armenians have a side of that as well yeah where you can't

00:01:38.300 you can't speak a certain way so how do you you're in the game of promoting guys are going to talk 1.00

00:01:44.340 trash how do you process that do you do you mentally set it aside and say i can't take this

00:01:48.980 personally how do you deal with it no i can deal it so easy but sometimes for the show you gotta

00:01:54.380 do something you gotta if you think like for example habib he had already name big name and

00:02:02.880 he shouldn't do anything if he's just listen to him it's okay but for example right now i i gotta

00:02:08.580 do something like crazy things that that gonna bring a lot of eyes and then i when i when i

00:02:15.360 like a fight or something they already know who am i you know and

00:02:19.920 that's why sometimes people think i'm too crazy but it's like

00:02:26.960 i don't know sometimes i say okay i'm not gonna do anything but like i cannot control myself so

00:02:34.780 much so i need someone to who is gonna stop me does it help to when the opponent is somebody

00:02:42.500 you really want to destroy or does it work against you you know what i'm saying like does it help if

00:02:47.780 you hate the guy you're facing against or it doesn't matter it doesn't matter when you're in

00:02:52.660 the cage you call you don't care but so in the cage it's completely different game it's just uh

00:02:59.460 it's a it's the no talking nothing it's just like a fight and uh if for example i hate ben hooker

00:03:08.180 I used to hate him.

00:03:09.980 And when I was in the cage, I was so calm.

00:03:12.420 Like, I was controlling myself because it's a fight.

00:03:14.960 You cannot do it.

00:03:16.280 If you're going to be not calm, you're going to lose.

00:03:18.220 You're going to gas out.

00:03:19.840 So that's why you've got to control yourself and, like, be calm.

00:03:25.500 So it's important.

00:03:26.360 Who did you fight that would talk to you?

00:03:28.500 Are there fighters that would talk to you in the middle of the fight 0.99

00:03:30.380 that would try to get to you or no?

00:03:31.780 Yeah, sometimes, but I don't care what they're saying.

00:03:34.440 So in the cage, it's easy, you know.

00:03:36.360 You can beat them.

00:03:37.220 But out of cage, yeah, it's hard to control yourself

00:03:41.660 because you cannot beat him right away.

00:03:43.500 That's why he can't talk a lot.

00:03:44.820 But in the cage, he can talk whatever he wants. 0.92

00:03:46.860 You can just smash him.

00:03:49.000 Yeah, I remember when Khabib would fight, he was talking.

00:03:53.360 He would talk a lot, and he would talk to Conor as well in the fight.

00:03:57.420 There would be a certain level of conversation with him,

00:04:00.160 but that's not your style.

00:04:01.080 You're not the one.

00:04:02.000 You're just focused on the fight versus your opponent.

00:04:04.780 Yeah, mostly, yeah, but never know.

00:04:07.160 You never know.

00:04:08.040 You never know.

00:04:09.500 You could surprise somebody.

00:04:11.080 Yeah, for sure. 0.93

00:04:11.940 Have you ever grappled or wrestled or done anything with Khabib or no? 0.99

00:04:15.980 No.

00:04:16.580 His teammates, yes, a lot.

00:04:18.900 His teammates, yes, but not him directly.

00:04:20.680 Not yet.

00:04:22.560 I came a little bit later.

00:04:25.340 So he's already retired and coaching his cousins.

00:04:31.560 But in the future, for sure, I'm going to fight his cousins or somebody

00:04:35.400 because he has a good team.

00:04:37.940 Do you guys ever communicate?

00:04:39.100 Have you guys ever communicated?

00:04:39.860 We're cool.

00:04:40.300 We're cool.

00:04:40.980 I'm cool with Habib, Islam, with everybody.

00:04:43.900 With his whole camp?

00:04:44.800 Yeah, because we live in the same country.

00:04:48.900 And we have the same culture.

00:04:50.600 And we don't pass the lane.

00:04:53.640 You get respect.

00:04:54.600 And right now you're training with... 0.97

00:04:57.180 Hamzat. 0.57

00:04:57.800 Hamzat, yeah.

00:04:58.600 How's the training with him?

00:05:00.240 So hard.

00:05:01.420 Hamzat, the guy, I thought I trained a lot.

00:05:04.600 So I have the same problem like Hamzat.

00:05:08.020 If nobody's going to control me, what I'm doing, 0.99

00:05:11.000 I'm going to overtrain always.

00:05:13.840 And when you overtrain, you cannot perform.

00:05:16.240 So that's why you need a good coach.

00:05:18.380 Hamzat's the same.

00:05:21.360 He works so hard, and you've got to stop him.

00:05:26.140 So that's why he, like, three, four, five fights ago,

00:05:33.120 So he couldn't make weight.

00:05:35.260 He pulled out, got injured because he always over-trained.

00:05:38.040 But now he has a good team, and everybody control him, not over-trained.

00:05:42.500 So it's important.

00:05:43.400 So it's interesting.

00:05:44.180 So over-training works against you when it comes down to the fight.

00:05:47.000 Yeah, when you're young, you can't over-train because your body can take it.

00:05:51.920 But right now when you're 30, 31, 32, you cannot do the same when you were 18.

00:05:57.220 So that's why now you've got to take care of your body and train smart,

00:06:02.180 especially we cut a lot of weight too so he cuts maybe like 15 kg it's like about 30 pounds wow

00:06:09.960 in in what timeline what time frame like one month in one month that's insane to go through

00:06:16.100 that yeah and what do you notice when you've trained with a lot of different people i'm

00:06:19.620 assuming over the years yeah what are some of the big names you've trained against not fought

00:06:24.580 but trained with yeah but hamzat i think the biggest name biggest name yeah right now how does

00:06:31.340 that help you training against somebody

00:06:33.320 his size?

00:06:35.280 I mean, when I watch his training

00:06:37.380 what he's doing in the sparring, so

00:06:39.040 I always try to

00:06:40.540 take something from him, you know, because

00:06:43.380 he has a good

00:06:44.260 wrestling, good striking.

00:06:47.780 It's always good to have a

00:06:49.160 teammate like him. And

00:06:50.540 his mindset,

00:06:53.660 he has a different mindset.

00:06:55.640 Like, not everybody. He never

00:06:57.200 watches his opponent fights. He don't

00:06:59.120 care what he's going to do. 0.93

00:07:01.340 For example, me, I sit and watch, like, okay, hooker, he does the, like, kick from the left to right, he does this, that.

00:07:10.840 Like, I'm going to do this, he's going to kick me this. 0.88

00:07:13.640 Okay, let's train.

00:07:14.520 He's, like, do a lot of straight kicks and, like, do defense during the training.

00:07:20.040 But this guy, he doesn't know, like, what even, like, Strickland does or, like, his opponent, he never watched them.

00:07:26.600 And he doesn't care what he's going to do.

00:07:28.880 He cares what he's going to do to him.

00:07:31.760 So he has his own game plan just on what he's going to do.

00:07:36.760 Wow.

00:07:37.380 So that's why he's different.

00:07:40.040 That's why he's a champion.

00:07:41.920 So he doesn't study his opponents at all?

00:07:44.480 At all.

00:07:45.820 Yeah, so me, I'm opposite.

00:07:49.720 I'm like looking what he's doing, this, that, switch stand.

00:07:53.800 When he throws like one, two, he's going this way or that way.

00:07:58.360 he is different yeah that i'm taking from the from him nowadays i don't think about my opponent

00:08:06.660 so much i watch once and that's it so i let my coaches think about that yeah that's that's pretty

00:08:12.820 that's pretty wild to be thinking about because typically in every sport that's like study your

00:08:16.340 opponent we watch tape we watch this we watch that i think i i watch more uh his opponent than him

00:08:23.380 for sure i watch like what strickland does that he's fighting next month but uh why did he bring

00:08:30.940 you in because if he's fighting strickland why why train with you of course you're one of the

00:08:36.000 best in the world and in your weight class you're you're you're feared by everybody but why bring

00:08:40.640 you in uh we're good friends and he he has a fight in u.s and he asked me like where i should train

00:08:48.800 so he came here one year ago

00:08:51.020 and he liked to train with me

00:08:53.120 with my coaches

00:08:54.020 at the place where I train

00:08:55.940 and he feels free here

00:08:58.660 because he's a superstar in Russia

00:09:00.380 in UAE

00:09:02.380 here in Newport nobody bothers him

00:09:05.320 so he can focus

00:09:06.800 on his thing

00:09:08.180 and he likes the energy

00:09:10.700 he likes to be

00:09:12.460 how fun is he

00:09:14.260 without

00:09:14.700 with the camera off

00:09:18.240 with nobody being there?

00:09:19.140 Is he as fun as he seems like he is

00:09:20.800 or is he very serious?

00:09:22.360 So you can see him once.

00:09:25.160 He can be the funniest guy ever,

00:09:27.580 but you can see him in one hour.

00:09:29.380 He's going to be the scariest guy ever.

00:09:32.360 So he can change his mood so fast.

00:09:37.160 And I ask my guys, like my friends,

00:09:40.320 they tell me you're same.

00:09:43.200 So you can be funny in the morning

00:09:44.940 and then in the evening you come and like...

00:09:47.320 Like, why are you doing this?

00:09:49.780 And, like, you're so, like, you have a bad mood.

00:09:54.280 So maybe because we're fighters or I don't know.

00:09:58.360 Like, he's the same.

00:10:00.520 One day you cannot even talk to him because he says,

00:10:04.180 Hi, how are you?

00:10:05.120 Good?

00:10:05.500 That's it.

00:10:05.900 So he doesn't talk.

00:10:06.980 One day he never stops.

00:10:08.560 He can talk, like, three or four hours.

00:10:10.120 It's funny.

00:10:10.540 that that's it that's a very common pattern uh with a lot of uh creative minds who wouldn't stop

00:10:18.160 and were not happy with uh you know their level of contentment was so low they wanted to win at

00:10:23.820 the highest level and they couldn't stop yeah athletes typically the best ones have a bit of

00:10:29.340 that mindset you know brady if you're around brady there's moments that he's got a fun side but you

00:10:34.100 know he can all of a sudden be a psycho it's like hey why are you guys sitting around so happy we're

00:10:37.680 losing let's get our act together it's a very very common pattern with uh highest level winners you

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Valuetainment - April 29, 2026

“You CAN’T Talk Like That To Armenians” - Arman Tsarukyan CLARIFIES The Line In Trash Talk

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