Category: Edmond Tarverdyan

  • Edmond Tarverdyan explains why Ronda Rousey didn’t do any media before UFC 207

    Edmond Tarverdyan explains why Ronda Rousey didn’t do any media before UFC 207

    Back in December of 2016, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey returned from a lengthy hiatus and attempted to re-capture the title in a scrap with reigning champion Amanda Nunes. This attempt, as any fan will remember, went disastrously, as Rousey was brutally beaten down by Nunes in less than a minute. In advance […]

  • Coach Edmond Tarverdyan on his critics: ‘I know I know how to coach’

    Coach Edmond Tarverdyan on his critics: ‘I know I know how to coach’

    You often hear in the sport of mixed martial arts that fighters experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. In most cases, it isn’t just the fighters competing in the bout that experience the rollercoaster of emotions but their team is also on the ride with them. Coaches and training partners who […]

  • Travis Browne defends Edmond Tarverdyan coaching style

    Travis Browne defends Edmond Tarverdyan coaching style

    While Ronda Rousey’s head coach Edmond Tarverdyan often receives quite a bit of criticism from fight fans for his coaching style, UFC heavyweight Travis Browne is looking to set the record straight. After Rousey’s UFC 193 loss to Holly Holm over a year ago, Tarverdyan received the brunt of the criticism for what many believed […]

  • Travis Browne opens up on rumors of leaving Edmond Tarverdyan

    Travis Browne opens up on rumors of leaving Edmond Tarverdyan

    Ahead of UFC heavyweight Travis Browne’s ‘UFC Fight Night: Halifax’ scrap with Derrick Lewis in just over two weeks, rumors have continued to fly regarding Browne potentially leaving Coach Edmond Tarverdyan and Glendale Fighting Club. While Travis Browne remains in a relationship with former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, reports had surfaced that Browne […]

  • Ronda Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan settles bankruptcy case

    Ronda Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan settles bankruptcy case

    Oft-criticized MMA coach Edmond Tarverdyan has recently been enduring a bit of a rough patch. In late 2015, his star pupil Ronda Rousey was turned off by a Holly Holm head kick in one of the biggest upsets our sport has ever seen. Rousey’s long-awaited comeback fight, which pitted her against Amanda Nunes in the […]

  • VIDEO | Corner footage of Coach Edmond’s reaction to Rousey’s loss

    VIDEO | Corner footage of Coach Edmond’s reaction to Rousey’s loss

    Here's footage of Edmond Tarverdyan during the closing moments of Ronda Rousey's loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 via reddit user DaveAP pic.twitter.com/UZuteMAe7z — Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) January 10, 2017 Late last month, Coach Edmond Tarverdyan watched his star pupil get crushed in just 48 seconds. That star pupil, of course, was Ronda Rousey, […]

  • Firas Zahabi defends Edmond Tarverdyan

    Firas Zahabi defends Edmond Tarverdyan

    Following the first professional loss of Ronda Rousey’s career at UFC 193 to Holly Holm in 2015, Ronda Rousey‘s coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, was the subject of much criticism. While Rousey lost the fight, many blamed Tarverdyan for giving Rousey a false sense of confidence in her striking prior to stepping into the Octagon with an […]

  • VIDEO | Edmond Tarverdyan boxing training

    VIDEO | Edmond Tarverdyan boxing training

    https://youtu.be/yij4oQ8kbpI To close out 2016, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey returned to the Octagon for her highly anticipated return after suffering the first loss of her career at the hands of Holly Holm back in November of 2015. When rousey returned to the Octagon at UFC 207 to fight Amanda Nunes to close […]

  • Brendan Schaub blasts Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan

    Brendan Schaub blasts Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan

    Ronda Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan continues to find himself in the firing line, taking the brunt of the blame for his fighter’s failed comeback. This comeback, which occurred in the main event of UFC 207, saw Rousey return from an absence of more than a year to be knocked out in just 48 seconds by […]

  • VIDEO | Hilarious parody cartoon of Edmond Tarverdyan coaching Ronda Rousey to hunt the lioness

    VIDEO | Hilarious parody cartoon of Edmond Tarverdyan coaching Ronda Rousey to hunt the lioness

    Much of the criticism surrounding former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and her pair of losses are being aimed at her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan. Rousey’s own mother, Olympic judo gold medalist AnnMaria De Mars has made it loud and clear with her disapproval for Tarverdyan. With Rousey coming back to face Amanda “The Lioness” […]

  • Coach Edmond Tarverdyan breaks silence on Ronda Rousey’s UFC 207 loss

    Coach Edmond Tarverdyan breaks silence on Ronda Rousey’s UFC 207 loss

    Last Friday, in the main event of UFC 207, former women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey stepped into the Octagon for the first time since she was flattened by a Holly Holm head kick more than a year ago. She made her long awaited return against the division’s reigning queen, brick-fisted Brazilian Amanda Nunes. Unfortunately for […]

  • VIDEO | Thank You Edmond (Definitive 2016 Version)

    VIDEO | Thank You Edmond (Definitive 2016 Version)

    Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey suffered a shocking 48-second TKO loss to Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 207 on Friday night in Las Vegas. The loss marked Rousey’s second straight setback, as she was previously defeated by Holly Holm at UFC 193 in November of 2015 by way of a […]