Today UFC Bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi talks about the early Tristar days, his long breaks between fights & Jon Jones getting slapped by a legendary Muay Thai coach

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:50 Growing Up In Montreal
7:40 When Aiemenn, Jamie & Ryan Hall All Competed In The Same Tournament
10:07 The Beginnings of tristar
12:38 You Couldn’t Learn MMA In One Place Back In The Day
16:11 Coaching for the first time
17:04 The UFC Journey
17:33 Quebec’s Ban On Martial Arts
19:13 First UFC Fight
21:12 Why Doesn’t Aiemann Fight More Often
21:34 Getting KOed for the first time in a fight
24:16 Different Weight Classes Deal With Different People From The UFC
24:58 Tristar Got Shutdown by the police
25:12 Injuries That Derailed His Career
26:30 Reflecting On Latest Win vs Ricky Turcios
28:34 The Randomness of MMA
30: 00 When you should start your kid off in martial arts’
31:26 How Tristar uses your strengths to win fights
33:54 UFC 280 predictions
39:06 Calvin Kattar vs Arnold Allen
41:30 Why Max Holloway can’t move up weight classes
42:03 How To Find Your Perfect Weight class
43:27 Weight cutting is the same everywhere
44:55 When Jon Jones visited Tristar
48:06 Georges St-Pierre on ring rust
49:17 UFC 282
50:38 Different types of grapplers
51:20 Aiemann Couldn’t Give Tickets To His Friends