Khamzat Chimaev Convo: Why he got into fighting, living at the gym in Sweden & more | ESPN MMA

so remind me when you moved to Sweden you were how old 19 you were 19. yeah you came with your mother yeah and your brother was already here yeah you remember the day like first of all had you ever been outside of chechnya when you moved here yeah it's competitions in Russian and not like out to Russia were you trying to move to Sweden like for a while that my brother was doing here that he told us I come here is good for us and our one brother he has like surgery as well so that helped him like when we come directly there after that we stay here we like it and they help us a lot as well so what do you remember about the day you moved you left your village to come to Sweden and tell me about it yeah it's a beginning was for me I was young 19 and just doesn't want to left my friends you know like but when it comes here it was a small village here as well and I didn't know somebody that we didn't have a gym as well there one year it was hard for me I love what when I come here and when I will stay here and that's it you know I am become a normal life if you stay some place long time like it's like becomes like your home you know living in this one apartment with who me and my mom my brother sister how was that was tight but not like it's like I could say was like we couldn't sit and sleep and eat you know like small apartment very small how many rooms I think was two two rooms so what did you all sleep in the same room yeah me and my brother was sleeping same room my mother and sister who was sick always like inside in my eyes like I'm gonna find some ways like make my life is better you know so I always was thinking always was working and doing something you know and I never got stopped what your mom was doing when you first moved to Sweden and why did you want to to make things better for her like why was that so important to you she thinks always about us she like she wants like you know it's when I was young you don't understand why she gives cheese food to us you know like she was waiting for us like we finished the food and this distinction left you know she's it as well and now when I become like all the time and understand what she did that day now I want to give back everything you know it's like that's why I'm always feel like I have to make his life is much better how it's possible so like when you were running through those neighborhoods you were thinking to yourself like I want to make my my life better or my mom's life better probably both but which one were you thinking about my mom is important for me that's why I'm working hard as well yeah we're always talking in the phone now if she's happy I'm happy my brother pushed me I was like honestly but I want to finish that work for one year before and the I did work for two years but I said to my brother after one he left me go and try something else in the big city and he stopped me now you have to work work is good then you can make money what you're gonna do and he was always thinking about me because I'm not like guy who can stay some one place you know like work and like he was you're gonna go some troubles and do some push things and he stopped me two years I was there then he was tired he said let's go try I find MMA I said to him I'm gonna make money he said I don't think you're gonna do that but you can't try it yeah let's go and then talk about that that so you believed that the money could be there for you when you saw Conor McGregor fight Jose Aldo right what what happened with that tell me the story I see the guys like knock him out dang I was thinking if that like guy did that why I'm not into it I'm like mentally I'm stronger in him my body is bigger than him I know and I was feeling if at that time just meeting us outside I can broke him if he makes that money why not me [Applause] [Music] most people don't live in gyms you know uh what was it like living in the gym and just like is this where you cooked your meals like what do you think about like when you're in here wow always still guys cook the food here they invite me as well sometimes come eat with them as well as like you know like I write that like three years before it's like don't touch don't touch my you know that comes up and yeah we cook the food here and this is like relaxed room for us as well we can't sit there yeah which I don't do that anymore but yeah the guys use that I steal my name there okay okay so the first day you came in what happened yeah I was boxing inspiring and was like doing good spotting with the guys that guy it was water on the uh on the match like I just rather said just pulled down what my one knee and he still punched me and then I grew up and start to fight and I take out my gloves I kick in his ass you know like took him down the other guys is nobody knows me here and the ghost was together you know like one guy screaming oh I came back you know like that's bad things I said okay guys like come on go to the bathroom and I just opened the toilet I said come on jump in you and me I'm a man you're the man and he said I don't have time for that I like these things and I he doesn't want to come another guy asking New York let's go let's go you the real man he said I didn't say something and yeah it happened then magdy and Andreas come [Applause] there was talk I I couldn't like speak Duty Swedish that time as well so how long did you live here almost three years two years in that room yeah what was that like like old home you feel home right now yeah comfortable yeah I can still live here I have no problem for me just my brother he said I was still staying after my UFC first two fights I was living in the gym as well he said no no all this like level exchange you have to change you like you have to be comfortable or for training and this stuff that's why he moved me to the hotel then I moved to apartment yeah the my brother said he still lives here without two beds two guys live inside that time I was on the media yeah you were the only one living in the entire gym yeah so like what were like did he get lonely she was thinking a lot and Rochester sitting and watching him sometimes movies in my phone and they have Wi-Fi here and now that a lot of guys it's more funny to be here you know like they can't talk each other or not so I'm sometimes I was alone here like for five months you know sitting then downstairs and thinking and sometimes go punch back and you know like middle night yeah I was like like different things last jacket it'll give me the guy I give to the other guy this this is this one the steel four years but it's still the same jacket he gives to me I give to my brother and they go like you know maybe you can become you she fighter and then you give to somebody yeah and you were living in here were you like like I'm gonna be the best it's only a matter of time like you're really nice where you were like why am I doing the right thing like did you ever wonder yeah well I was believing myself I'm believing what I do and my coach and he said to me from day one I we just do what I say to you if you do that you're gonna become a better and everyone and we did that we do we still and do it did you ever like uh just look forward to like when the one practice would start again so that way you didn't have to just sit here like and it had nothing to do I was actually much heard that town was living here I did too many sessions they are just training training it's because it doesn't you can do something more is here than just coaches take me out from the session you can't do so much training and you're gonna get danger that stuff uh what I can do more this is my work that's why I train hard for a fourth session three session every day and yeah I was believing that's gonna happen that's why I was dealing here stay here three years yeah well we did that the room a whole lot of memories you know three years it's like feels like all life you know it's only two years but she's like low life yeah is it good yeah like was life good in this room yeah I don't know but it was good was bad and uh changed many things happening yeah miss me sometimes but no sometimes was hard you know like when you're alone like five four or five months I can be sitting in this more room it's like makes makes in your mind some crazy things and it's like it's hard to control yourself yeah but um now I did that everything I go or go to that things now finish that thank you for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming Sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus

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Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 04 2022