Your story, I've heard it from a lot of different people, you know, a story of you used to be a hockey player,

and then all of a sudden you got into fighting. So maybe tell me a little bit about your upbringing.

Yeah, I was born in Georgia. We moved to Russia for the good life, you know.

And then I went to karate, I didn't like, I like karate, but it was too far.

And then I started to wrestle because it's close to my home.

I was starting wrestling and I could wrestle so good when I was kid.

But like my coach always tell me, you gotta cut weight because you gotta be lighter

and I was hitting this sport because of

cut weight. But nowadays, if someone asks me as a kid, kid shouldn't cut weight because it's

the worst thing ever for the kid. And I couldn't, I could not eat like three, four days as

like eight years kid. Can I imagine like what, what's stressed? At eight years old?

Yeah.

So you started training very early.

Yeah, I started six.

I started training six.

And from six to nine or ten, I was, like, beating everybody on the wrestling.

And then when I was 10, I was playing for myself.

Like, from six or seven years, I wrestle like professional already,

but like I used, I play hockey in my backyard with my friends because all my classmates were

hockey player. I'm from Habarovsk. It's like a cold place in Russia. It's like north,

like the coldest place in Russia and everybody.

Not an Armenian community?

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