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Chimaev’s close friend, Arman Tsarukyan, recently explained why the middleweight champion is different than most fighters. Tsarukyan claims that Chimaev never studies tape on his opponents. According to Tsarukyan, Chimaev is only focused on his own game plan in the fight. Chimaev is so confident in his skills that he doesn’t care about what his opponent is going to bring to the table.
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“Borz” is scheduled to defend his title against Sean Strickland (30-7) at UFC 328 on May 9 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Tsaruyan (23-3) is currently helping Chimaev (15-0) in camp for his upcoming fight. Tsarukyan guarantees that he has watched more tape on Strickland than Chimaev has. Tsarukyan also admits that he naturally has a different approach than Chimaev, watching a lot of tape on his opponent and making a game plan accordingly.
Film Study Overrated?
However, Chimaev is rubbing off on Tsarukyan. “Ahalkalakets” claims that he now watches just one fight of his opponent and lets his coaches do the rest.
“Whenever I watch him sparring, I always try to take something from him… He has a different mindset,” Tsarukyan told Patrick Bet-David. “Never watches his opponents’ fights. Doesn’t care what his [opponent] is gonna do… He doesn’t even know what Strickland does. He cares what he is gonna do to [his opponent]. He has his own game plan based on just what he is gonna do. That’s why he is different, that’s why he is the champion. Me, I am opposite… But I’m learning from him. Nowadays I don’t think about my opponent so much. I watch one and that’s it… I think I watch more of [Khamzat’s] opponent than him, for sure.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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