{"id":38603,"date":"2026-06-02T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Arman-Tsarukyan-defends-coach-against-criticism-for-Khamzat-Chimaevs-loss-201409"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:34:34","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-defends-coach-against-criticism-for-khamzat-chimaevs-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/arman-tsarukyan-defends-coach-against-criticism-for-khamzat-chimaevs-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan defends coach against criticism for Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> doesn\u2019t think coach Sam Calavitta is to blame for
\nKhamzat
\nChimaev<\/a>\u2019s loss against Sean
\nStrickland<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Chimaev lost his middleweight title to Strickland in a huge upset
\nat UFC 328<\/a>
\nlast month. Chimaev look visibly fatigued after a sloppy takedown
\nattempt in the second round and wasn\u2019t nearly as dominant with his
\nwrestling thereafter. \u201cBorz\u201d also had a terrible weight cut, with
\nmany even accusing him of missing weight. <\/p>\n

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Chimaev (15-1) was doing his strength and conditioning training
\nunder coach Calavitta at The Treigning Lab aka the Garage in
\nCalifornia. Chimaev\u2019s close friend Tsarukyan and other fighters
\nlike Khalil
\nRountree<\/a> also joined him in camp at the Garage. The team,
\nincluding athletes from different sports, were seen undergoing
\ngruelling training sessions under coach Cal. Calavitta has faced
\nsevere backlash from fans and pundits following Chimaev\u2019s first
\nprofessional loss. Calavitta is being accused of overtraining
\nChimaev with a regimen which is not specifically efficient for
\nMMA. <\/p>\n

Professional Responsibility<\/h2>\n

However, Tsarukyan (23-3) believes coach Calavitta is not to be
\nheld responsible for Chimaev\u2019s loss. According to Tsarukyan,
\nChimaev\u2019s last training session at the Garage was hardly 20
\nminutes. Tsarukyan also hints that athletes at the highest level of
\nthe sport should know their limits well and can just opt out of
\ntraining when tired.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he wins everybody says, \u2018Oh yeah, [coach] did a good job.\u2019 He
\nlost, everyone is saying he’s doing the wrong things and that they
\novertrained,\u201d Tsarukyan said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.\u201d<\/a> \u201cBut Khamzat’s last training
\nsession in the garage was only 15-20 minutes. At this level, you’re
\na professional. You gotta to control yourself. If you feel tired,
\njust skip the training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another student of coach Cal, former UFC bantamweight champ
\nT.J.
\nDillashaw<\/a>, hinted that Chimaev went somewhere else for his
\nweight cut. Dillashaw believes Chimaev\u2019s weight cut went wrong
\nbecause he gave the responsibility to someone else other than
\nCalavitta. <\/p>\n

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\n

Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> pushes back on criticism of strength and conditioning
\ncoach Sam Calavitta following Khamzat
\nChimaev<\/a>‘s loss:<\/p>\n

“Because he lost, everyone is saying he’s doing the wrong things
\nand that he overtrained. But Khamzat’s last training session in the
\ngarage was only 15-20\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tmOlg0dxWc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani)
\nJune 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Arman Tsarukyan doesn\u2019t think coach Sam Calavitta is to blame for Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s loss against Sean Strickland.  Chimaev lost his middleweight title to Strickland in a huge upset at UFC 328 last month. Chimaev look visibly fatigued after a sloppy takedown attempt in the second round and wasn\u2019t nearly as dominant with his wrestling thereafter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38603","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\/38603","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=38603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}