“You CAN’T Talk Like That To Armenians” - Arman Tsarukyan CLARIFIES The Line In Trash Talk
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In this episode, we talk about the differences between Armenians and Dagestani's in the UFC, how to deal with trash talking, and what it's like being a mixed martial arts fighter in the modern era of the UFC.
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what do you think normal people don't know about armenians that there are certain rules with
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armenians you can't curse you know what i'm saying like there's certain certain things
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with armenians that if you say for whatever reason we tend to get more angry than other
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communities why do you think that is uh because of uh the place where we grew up
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and the second one is a genetic uh testosterone that we have it's from there coming you think
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that's what it is yeah for sure yeah because yeah because if you go to armenia i mean the
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all the places armenia georgia dagestan chechnya it's like kind of same culture everybody has
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if you go there in the village the the kids is fighting to each other and they grow up like this
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And then when they go to the city, they have that mentality.
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That's why the best fighters, they're coming from there.
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If they're going to sign a lot of Dagestani, Chechen, Georgian, Armenian fighters,
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No, but what I'm asking is, I'm asking more about from the side of,
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you know, like in Americans, they'll say, hey, mother, you know.
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they just talk and like you just talk yeah but but but if you do that too even when connor was
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doing it to khabib khabib's like listening to everything he's saying says you don't talk about
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my father my religion nothing like that armenians have a side of that as well yeah where you can't
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you can't speak a certain way so how do you you're in the game of promoting guys are going to talk
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trash how do you process that do you do you mentally set it aside and say i can't take this
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personally how do you deal with it no i can deal it so easy but sometimes for the show you gotta
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do something you gotta if you think like for example habib he had already name big name and
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he shouldn't do anything if he's just listen to him it's okay but for example right now i i gotta
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do something like crazy things that that gonna bring a lot of eyes and then i when i when i
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like a fight or something they already know who am i you know and
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that's why sometimes people think i'm too crazy but it's like
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i don't know sometimes i say okay i'm not gonna do anything but like i cannot control myself so
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much so i need someone to who is gonna stop me does it help to when the opponent is somebody
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you really want to destroy or does it work against you you know what i'm saying like does it help if
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you hate the guy you're facing against or it doesn't matter it doesn't matter when you're in
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the cage you call you don't care but so in the cage it's completely different game it's just uh
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it's a it's the no talking nothing it's just like a fight and uh if for example i hate ben hooker
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Like, I was controlling myself because it's a fight.
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If you're going to be not calm, you're going to lose.
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So that's why you've got to control yourself and, like, be calm.
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Are there fighters that would talk to you in the middle of the fight
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Yeah, sometimes, but I don't care what they're saying.
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But out of cage, yeah, it's hard to control yourself
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But in the cage, he can talk whatever he wants.
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Yeah, I remember when Khabib would fight, he was talking.
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He would talk a lot, and he would talk to Conor as well in the fight.
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There would be a certain level of conversation with him,
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You're just focused on the fight versus your opponent.
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Have you ever grappled or wrestled or done anything with Khabib or no?
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So he's already retired and coaching his cousins.
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But in the future, for sure, I'm going to fight his cousins or somebody
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If nobody's going to control me, what I'm doing,
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So that's why he, like, three, four, five fights ago,
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He pulled out, got injured because he always over-trained.
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But now he has a good team, and everybody control him, not over-trained.
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So over-training works against you when it comes down to the fight.
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Yeah, when you're young, you can't over-train because your body can take it.
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But right now when you're 30, 31, 32, you cannot do the same when you were 18.
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So that's why now you've got to take care of your body and train smart,
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especially we cut a lot of weight too so he cuts maybe like 15 kg it's like about 30 pounds wow
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in in what timeline what time frame like one month in one month that's insane to go through
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that yeah and what do you notice when you've trained with a lot of different people i'm
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assuming over the years yeah what are some of the big names you've trained against not fought
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but trained with yeah but hamzat i think the biggest name biggest name yeah right now how does
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For example, me, I sit and watch, like, okay, hooker, he does the, like, kick from the left to right, he does this, that.
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Like, I'm going to do this, he's going to kick me this.
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He's, like, do a lot of straight kicks and, like, do defense during the training.
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But this guy, he doesn't know, like, what even, like, Strickland does or, like, his opponent, he never watched them.
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So he has his own game plan just on what he's going to do.
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I'm like looking what he's doing, this, that, switch stand.
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When he throws like one, two, he's going this way or that way.
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he is different yeah that i'm taking from the from him nowadays i don't think about my opponent
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so much i watch once and that's it so i let my coaches think about that yeah that's that's pretty
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that's pretty wild to be thinking about because typically in every sport that's like study your
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opponent we watch tape we watch this we watch that i think i i watch more uh his opponent than him
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for sure i watch like what strickland does that he's fighting next month but uh why did he bring
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you in because if he's fighting strickland why why train with you of course you're one of the
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best in the world and in your weight class you're you're you're feared by everybody but why bring
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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
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And, like, you're so, like, you have a bad mood.
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So maybe because we're fighters or I don't know.
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One day you cannot even talk to him because he says,
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that that's it that's a very common pattern uh with a lot of uh creative minds who wouldn't stop
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and were not happy with uh you know their level of contentment was so low they wanted to win at
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the highest level and they couldn't stop yeah athletes typically the best ones have a bit of
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that mindset you know brady if you're around brady there's moments that he's got a fun side but you
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know he can all of a sudden be a psycho it's like hey why are you guys sitting around so happy we're
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losing let's get our act together it's a very very common pattern with uh highest level winners you
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