In my opinion if we look at ethnic backgrounds of Russian mma fighters probably first places would be Russians, Ukrainians and Armenians. Dagestani is not an ethnicity, it’s like 20 ethnicity who considered native If someone wants to mention them.
Lemieux? That’s not Armenian big guy
All those countries could make a case for inventing the uni-brow
His mother is Armenian, so is his step father.
Because Armenia is no stranger to conflict. Constant aggression by Turks and Azeri’s and such.
I had no idea
Mousasi is Iranian born and from Holland
It still makes sense to ask. Machida is a martial artist because of his Japanese heritage, I mean his dad is a prominent sensei. Fact is a lot of guys with Armenian roots end up in mma. There is 100% a cultural component to it. You don't need to live in Japan or Brazil to have Japanese influence if your parents are freaking Japanese and Brazilian natives. I do not have Armenian roots so I am interested to know why they are represented so well for a small nationality.
Mousasi is literaly Armenian. In Europe and around it cultures are original. It´s not America, you´re born there and that´s what you are. It´s your language , your whole famiy, culture, blood. That is if Moose agrees. I think he does. Or he considers himself Dutch Armenian or Armenian from Holland. In Germany noone claims to be German who isn´t ethnically Germans. It takes like 100 years to become a nationality, so a few generations. In most cases.
That changes everything
I am European lol. Ethnicity is not Nationality. Ironically you have the weird American mindset. Where people who have great great grandparents from Ireland or Italy call themselves that instead of American.
You can "identify" genderqueer squirrel s whatever this days. Mousassi is a Iranian-born Dutch. He might legitimatly ethnically as Armenian (which can mean a lot of different things), but when the question is, literally "How does Armenia produce so many good/elite fighters?" Well, in the case of Moussasi Armenia didn't contribute a thing.
