Very glad Khamzat missed weight so we didn’t have to see Tony get his head knocked off his shoulders and Nate getting his eyeballs squeezed out.

This guy is awesome. No BS. Just straight up took the blame and apologized and was completely candid. Need more of these guys in the sport.

He handled this really well. The combo of having Khamzat's back, but also holding him accountable and being honest was good to see. Dude is lucky to have him as a coach

38:00 is gold. Kevin tells Andres after walking out the cage “coach, I’m telling you, he’s the real thing. He’s a bad man.” And then Andres says “ they’re all going to find out.”

Truly a genuine person. Much respect for answering straight.

This guy is definitely one of the smartest and most wise coaches in MMA.

There are things people truly do not understand when it comes to martial arts. It's easy as a spectator to simply say that with a full camp, things would've been different. Fighters like Khamzat, Khabib etc, have been doing nothing but mastering the same thing their whole lives. Basically even if you know what khamzat is about to do, you won't be able to do anything about it. A full camp for a few months wont save you either. Same story with Khabib, everyone knew what he was going to do, but no one were able to stop him. It's a masterpiece that these fighters are able to make such a complex thing look simple and beautiful. Khamzat reminded me of clip I saw a while ago, where an anakonda that strangles and kills a crocodile.

Watched every second of this interview and I must admit, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Love to hear actual clarity as opposed to the hatred that a lot of these "fans" are giving. Lovely interview from a brilliant coach.

Coach Andreas makes a great point, khamzat has never missed weight before and gets unreasonable hate for something that is very life threatening. I will continue to support khamzat even though people might not agree with me. Nice to hear wise words from coach!

Love his coach he’s a respectable guy. He’s gotta have more life conversations with Chimaev not just fighting he could do wonders to his mind.

Khamzat has got to be a difficult guy to control from a coaching perspective, dude has the mentality of an actual wolf. I absolutely love it...

Amazing coach . First time i hear a full interview from him . Very eloquent and knowledgeable reminded me of first zahabi kind of way

He just gave a straight up answer. A Big Rig has to have Diesel to haul its load. Khamzat is a absolute beast. I’m sure he needs a pretty big quantity of food to be energized and train like he does. They bring on a nutritionist to make the correct foods and nobody will stop this guy💯💯💯💯💯

He talks about Khamzat like he is wild animal, how they have to feed him so he can train harder, like he is an actual wolf.

People swear Khamzat is the only person to miss weight. Plenty of fighters missed weight.

Brett is a legend.. always listen and patiently wait before cutting with another question

I hope this isn’t the last time we see Khamzat fight at 170… A lot of big fights there.

I'm glad khamzat missed weight man, it saved Nate from a huge embarrassment on last fight in his contract , he would've killed Nate in blink of eye, remarkable performance.

He made a great point. Khamzat is still so young in the sport. Learning and growing! I’m still a fan!

When a coach has to force you to stop training, that’s when you know you have a mad man.

It's good that this interview took place right away, cleared up the air. Just glad that he owned it and realized that they screwed up, but had the right intentions.

I believe everything coach said. Listen, "REAL" truth comes out of your mouth when your either drunk or extremely tired. Great interview! Coach has his hands full but what a f#$kin team!

Khamazat has the best coach in the UFC

His was very honest in this interview and apparently he didn't try to hide whatever happened during the weight cut.

Brett's interview skills are underrated, you really know how to hold space for people and that really gets them to open up. It's much appreciated.

Andreas is a very nice, honest, smart and knowledgeable coach. Of course seeing Khamzat in that condition did not leave him any other choice than to stop the weight cut and he is not afraid to take the blame for both of them. Respect 🙌👍 What is his nationality by the way? Who knows❓❔⁉️ I know he is Swedish, of course. I mean his roots...

The end of the interview was very heart warming. Andreas talking about Khamzat’s big heart and Brett acknowledging it. It’s funny, Khamzat’s highlights got me interested in him. But Brett’s interviews with him made me become a huge fan. I love how Khamzat opened up in these interviews.

Seems like the world of UFC revolves around Khamzat, the new Golden Goose

On weight cutting; I find it weird that you have to weigh a certain amount at weigh-in, but are legally able to (and it's 100% expected) to weigh whatever you're able to achieve, when going into the cage.

He just needs a dietician and he'll wipe out two divisions quick. 🐺

Khamzat should fight at 185 for his health and longevity..no doubt he can make 170 but his real weight class is 185 . I believe he can beat izzy . He is terrible matchup for izzy.

Much respect for this man, seems true and honest. Thanks for sharing the truth coach! 🤜🤛

One of the best 1:1 MMA interviews I have seen. Thank you both.

The 🐺 is very fortunate to have a couch and a mentor like this. My deepest respect for his honesty and principles 🙏🏽

There's part of me that sometimes feels sick of seeing this guy on interviews like he's attention seeking. But then you listen to him talk and he's glowing about Khamzat like Khamzat is his child. Not afraid to go against the arrogance of Khamzat and talk common sense. Man he gave Khamzat a bed to sleep on for goodness sake 😂😂 Truly goes above and beyond his role. Respect. And maybe the reason I'm sick of seeing him do interviews is because not many other coaches do interviews when they should. They're the experts after all.

The # 1 coach with the # 1 fighting machine even in cartoon mode.🤣

Nobody should be cutting 17 pounds in 1 day lol that’s insane. He needs to move to middle weight or keep a super strict diet where he might have to sacrifice losing some muscle mass for welter weight.

Chimaev isn't Even in his Prime mann that's CRAAAZYY thing you know He's still Learning and Taking Lessons from the Fights keep Evolving on the Game...

Hey, Respect to Brett Okamoto who never interrupts people he interviews!

People have so much high expectations from khazmat they start to hate on every little thing. So much fighters have missed weight before, this is khamzat first time. Give him a break I'm sure after this it won't happen again. Dude is still a monster & I enjoy watching him. The ufc needs him. He's a star rather you like it or not.

He is good human being not money hungry , a coach who cares about his fighters. Less and less people like him now a days.

At first i thought this guy was Ronda’s coach shouting ‘head movement, head movement’ 😂

Your interviews are always on point 👌

Khamzat is in good hands. I think coach Andreas still hasn't mastered the weight cut for Khamzat specifically but he's slowly going to get there and it's going to be a big problem for welterweights when he does.

Wonderful interview! I love this coach!

Gentlemen, thank you for the interview.

Khamzat fighting at 170 is already unfair 😂 on a real note, he has an incredibly intelligent coach who is going to make sure he has a good career. Khamzat is a unicorn and it’s awesome, respect greatness and go read up on what happens to your body cutting 10+ lbs in a day

If you do everything according to plan and it goes how it has always gone until something unforeseen happens at too late a stage to fix it, it's not really your fault. If you go into your next fight at 170 without making adjustments, THEN it's on you.

Respect to this legendary coach and respect to khamzat and all fighters risking their health and lives!

I love both you Gentlemen and thank you for such an awesome informative interview. Ps. I saw Kevin Holland on his trash talking for the 1st time but easily assessed that Khamzat would take his head by some sort of choke after some ground and pound. And that's exactly what happened. I know Khamzat's skill level is ridiculous & people are seriously underestimating it time and time again. It's okay because I Like how he ragdolls or KO'S PEOPLE and then people act shocked. Silly haters they all are. Keep bringing us the baddest most awesome fighter in healthy form and nothing less. Much LOVE AND GOD BLESS. SALAAM TO YOUNG WOLF AND CONGRATULATIONS ON ANOTHER AWESOME VICTORY. FROM NORTHERN CALI, USA.

Thx for the interview. Good insight...

Khamzat would’ve beat Gilbert if he followed up when he knocked him down he let him back up. He would’ve won there if he would’ve smashed him

Very brilliant coach!!! Much respect

glad khamzat has a level headed smart coach behind him. the guy doesn't seem stuck up, seems the polar opposite to khamzat. the best thing for a guy like khamzat imo

Coach Andreas is one of the best coaches in the UFC if not the best right now. The way sticks he for Khamzat like a farther is just absolute class.

What an interview, loved the ending

Great response by the coach! Khamzat reacted wrong to the miss, this is how he should’ve responded!

McGregor wants to come back @ 170. Though I am a major Macgregor fan, I shudder to think what Khamzat will do to him

Effing fantastic interview. Andreas is gold. Khamzat as GREAT as he is, is lucky to have him in his corner.

Great interview. This is what I wanted tor hear. I hope he learned how to prevent this in the future.

the training sessions for the kevin fight were basically sitting khamzat down and having him watch his li jing liang fight

Thanks for clearing that up the issue with him losing weight and where he got offsides is his dismissive attitude about not making weight .

very honest guy....respect and greetings from Slovenia

Would be nice if you would have put time stamps on this. It is a quite long interview.

Respect to Andreas for doing this and sharing his side. He was apologetic and very honest. Lucky the UFC were so agile in changing things around to make the fights happen. I hope we don't see this again though

All respect to khamzat and his team

Good interview!

Such an honest and great humble coach. Khamzat is lucky to have him

Much respect for the coach

Smart coach. Perfectly keeps the monster Khamzat in control

Amazing interview. No better man to ask these things than Andreas. Still hoping to see Khamzat fight Colby next.

Again another great interview by greatest interviewer covering MMA. After this interview, I feel Khamzat is in good hands with this coach. Last week i was worried.

If he doesn't do it again then the MMA community can forgive, but if he carries on like this he's gonna lose more fans. He needed to beat Holland that way. Fair play to the coach for owning that they were unprofessional

Good to see Pierre Woodman transitioning into MMA

imagine being Khamzat and then seeing people like Paddy make it work somehow lol

please put subtites next time it helps me understand and learn English as well ty

Thank you Coach, good sharing of values. Khamzat will reign both divisions

Kamzad is great and a human being.

what a great coach who listened to the advice of the doctors and looking after his fighters. if he ended up in hospital there would be no fight and possibly end up very unwell.

*Khamzat needs to get a full time dietician during Camp, and also he needs to stay in Welterweight until he gets the strap before moving to Middleweight. Bc these weight cut fluctuations of his, aren't working and are actually super hazardous to his health*

Phenomenal talk! Go Khamzat Chimaev 🏆☝ 💪

Khamzat needs a coach like this guy around him - who can be respected! In time Khmazat will learn the media pleasing behaviour but I'd rather have him keep being the beast that everyone wants a piece of ..

All right so I have a question we know how competitive he is we know how much drive he has we know that someday he wants to be a to division champion and defend those belts simultaneously. Wouldn’t it make more sense then to fight at weight classes a little bit closer to his natural weight? this way he doesn’t have to hurt himself to cut the weight something like light heavy weight 205 and middleweight 185 those are two weight classes closer to his natural weight so the weight cutting process would be a little bit easier and safer. Even though I understand the reasoning behind trying to go down to the lowest weight class possible especially if you can make the way because after you beat the scale you can put on as much weight as possible so I understand fighting at the lower weight classes as a bigger person because you get a slight physical and competitive advantage but it can be very dangerous and unhealthy and the toll that it takes on the body is a big one so I definitely think in my opinion he should move up some weight classes at least a middleweight I think about it he can easily get to 180 so fighting at 185 should be easy granted I’m not entirely sure what his natural walk around weight is let’s call it 224 230 so cutting down to Light heavyweight 205 should be easy. Also as someone that pride themselves on always being able to fight like he says he’ll take a fight anytime he’ll fight anybody anywhere you need to be more disciplined and stay closer to fighting weight this way when you get that call it’s less work that you have do. This is supposed to be your profession this is how you put food on the table don’t disrespect yourself by not being as ready as possible until you achieve all the goals that you want to achieve you should always be ready and that means being healthier and staying closer to fighting weight.

All the people who judged khamzat so quickly and immediately pointed fingers and even booed him, you should be ashamed. I've been watching mma and kickboxing fights since 1997, I've never seen someone booed so much just because a fighter didn't make the weight. As if he was the first fighter to fail the weight in the past at every event there were always at least 2-3 fighters who missed the weight, even in this event UFC 279 there were several fighters who missed the weight ,but nobody said a single word about these fighters. Just ridiculous, people like that should be ashamed to boo such a good fighter like Khamzat who just tries everything to be the best. And the media were also not uninvolved in this matter, because they brought up this topic again and again, no matter where, that's very hypocritical when you consider that at every event there are always fighters who don't make the weight.

Khabib had the same problem. He was shutting down missing weight then brought in a nutritionist and never missed weight again. Khamzat was khabib 2.0 so maybe that’s what will happen. I still like him being at ww the fights are so much more interesting then at mw.

Excellent video

The most important job of a coach is to keep he's fighter alive, keep doing what you're doing 👍🏻

Enabling bad behavior.

Sounds like he needs to move up to Middleweight.

pfftttt .. where are the time stamps Okamoto??!!

He is the pep guardiola of MMA 😂😂

If you cant make 170 in 6 weeks, you should fight at 185

Khamzat is a beast and will be double champ. I honestly think this guy is going to make it big ,even bigger than Connor because he is an absolute killer….love it

Brett is the man.. Love him for these interviews....

Andreas might become coach of the year, good man. Certainly hope that Khamzat becomes the champ next year...

It’s awesome how honest coach is, but I’m left scratching my head at a few things: 1. If he needs to make weight to compete, why not cut his training volume so he doesn’t have to eat as much? He doesn’t need as much volume before competition anyway. Decrease volume allows to cut cals and lose the weight easier. 2. If he is anyone, anytime, anywhere why does he have to get ready for a fight camp? Shouldn’t he be in the ballpark of making weight (within 15-20lbs/8-14kg)? 3. How has Khamzat and his coach not invested in a nutritionist? Especially since making weight is an issue for him? What are your thoughts?

Before the fight everyone picked Kevin to ko khamzat. And then when he lost immediately holland sucks now and khamzat gets discredited.

Fantastic conversation ✌️🤘

I cant imagine how good Khamzat would be in 185 when he dont have to struggle with weight, and can train even harder.

Call me crazy but how about you just fight a reasonable weight instead of dropping 30lbs to make 171 🙄