The coach who everyone loves to hate is being dragged through the mud yet again…
After Ronda Rousey’s epic rise and shocking fall in the UFC, her coach ate a large portion of the blame. Certainly from the fans, and even from fellow fighters, there was a lot of negativity aimed at Coach Edmond.
Tarverdyan’s credentials were publicly flaunted, and quite rightly, as he essentially had none. Training methods were criticized, and again it was Tarverdyan who came out smelling like sh*t.
Once it was time for Rousey’s comeback at UFC 207, the MMA world had all but given up on her.
It’s Now Official-Edmond is a Fraud
Aside from marching a poorly advised ‘Rowdy’ into two straight knockout losses, Edmond has been scamming using his business too. When early 2017 came around, it was revealed that Edmond might lose his gym.
Turns out the sketchy Armenian kickboxing ‘champion’ had filed for bankruptcy. Oddly enough, Tarverdyan had filed for being broke during the height of his monetary earnings. As Rousey smashed Cat Zingano at UFC 184, Edmond was claiming he’d made ‘$40 bucks’ in earnings for the year.
No really…
Full Details
As per the probing reports on BloodyElbow.com, it’s now official that Tarverdyan is a lying, manipulating, all-around greasy piece of sh*t:
“[Edmond Tarverdyan’s] testimony at the initial Meeting of Creditors was materially false,” bankruptcy trustee Jason Rund wrote in his June 2017 final report,
In February 2016, Bloody Elbow published the tapes of Tarverdyan’s two 341 hearings in which the trainer goes from testifying under oath in September that he earned “fifty bucks, forty bucks, but I wouldn’t call it that much of an income” for personal training and purse shares of “nothing but a few hundred dollars, that’s it,” to December testimony earning “in the six-figure mark” from training Ronda Rousey in 2015.”
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Ownership of the Glendale Fighting Club went from letting a student, Sevak Ohanjanyan, take it over “maybe five, six years ago” in September testimony to acknowledging in December that his wife, Diana Avetisyan, owns the gym because “I was very bad with my finances.”
In his final report, Trustee Rund noted, “[Tarverdyan] is a relatively high profile boxing and mixed martial arts trainer who has worked with fighters such as Ronda Rousey and Travis Brown [sic]. However, [Tarverdyan] testified that he does not own a gym and makes minimal income from training relatively unknown fighters. [Tarverdyan] works out of a gym called the Glendale Fighting Club which [Tarverdyan] testified he sold to one of his students because the business was doing poorly.
Notwithstanding [Tarverdyan’s] characterization of his sources of income and business interests, the information he provided is not accurate. The Glendale Fighting Club is operated under the corporate entity GFC Fitness, Inc. and the sole shareholder is [Tarverdyan’s] spouse, Diana Avetisyan. The trustee has further established that [Tarverdyan’s] income he receives as a trainer is transacted thru the corporation.”
How could you not trust in a coach who provides THESE kinds of results:
