{"id":38243,"date":"2026-05-13T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Georges-St-Pierres-coach-makes-sales-pitch-to-Khamzat-Chimaev-201171"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:26:41","slug":"georges-st-pierres-coach-makes-sales-pitch-to-khamzat-chimaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/georges-st-pierres-coach-makes-sales-pitch-to-khamzat-chimaev\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St. Pierre\u2019s coach makes sales pitch to Khamzat Chimaev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/georges-st-pierres-coach-makes-sales-pitch-to-khamzat-chimaev.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Georges-St-Pierre-3500\">Georges St.<br \/>\nPierre<\/a>\u2019s head coach, Firas Zahabi, promises that <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Khamzat-Chimaev-280021\">Khamzat<br \/>\nChimaev<\/a> won\u2019t have conditioning issues if the former<br \/>\nmiddleweight champ joins his team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chimaev (15-1) lost his middleweight title to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sean-Strickland-30452\">Sean<br \/>\nStrickland<\/a> (31-7) via split decision at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-9-111957\">UFC 328<\/a><br \/>\nlast weekend. While Chimaev was a massive favorite, he visibly<br \/>\nfaded in the second round and was forced to give up his strongest<br \/>\nskillset, wrestling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zahabi, who is credited with shaping St. Pierre\u2019s legendary career,<br \/>\nis inviting Chimaev to train under him at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fightfinder.php?search=yes&amp;association=Tristar%20Gym\"><br \/>\nTristar Gym<\/a> in Montreal. Zahabi promises that Chimaev will no<br \/>\nlonger face conditioning issues if he joins their camp. Zahabi,<br \/>\nalong with St. Pierre, vows to do everything in his capacity to<br \/>\nmake Chimaev return to the win column. Zahabi also welcomes<br \/>\nChimaev\u2019s friend and training partner, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Arman-Tsarukyan-213913\">Arman<br \/>\nTsarukyan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Making His Case<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSomeone spread this around: Khamzat, come train with me,\u201d Zahabi<br \/>\nsaid on his YouTube channel. \u201cCome to Montreal, work with me. I<br \/>\npromise you, if you come and train with me, you\u2019re not gonna fade.<br \/>\nCome and train with me. Bring Arman Tsarukyan too. Khamzat Chimaev,<br \/>\nArman Tsarukyan, come train with me. See how we prepare to make<br \/>\nyour fitness level better than ever, your striking will be sweeter<br \/>\nthan ever, your footwork will be sweeter than ever. I promise. If<br \/>\nKhamzat Chimaev, yoe come and train with me, this will never happen<br \/>\nto you again. I hope he gets this message. Please come train with<br \/>\nme and Georges St. Pierre, and we&#8217;ll make sure to do our absolute<br \/>\nbest to get your hand raised. No matter the cost, no matter how<br \/>\nmuch energy it takes, no matter how many hours we have to work.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll focus on getting your hand raised. If Khamzat Chimaev is<br \/>\nlistening or if anyone knows him, get this message to him. Let him<br \/>\nknow that he is more than welcome.\u201d<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oFdXj9W1Xnk?si=Pbv51uG-p64ygvRa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges St. Pierre\u2019s head coach, Firas Zahabi, promises that Khamzat Chimaev won\u2019t have conditioning issues if the former middleweight champ joins his team.&nbsp; Chimaev (15-1) lost his middleweight title to Sean Strickland (31-7) via split decision at UFC 328 last weekend. While Chimaev was a massive favorite, he visibly faded in the second round and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}