Early Life
Vardanyan began wrestling in his hometown of Leninakan, Armenian SSR (now Gyumri, Armenia). After the 1988 Spitak earthquake, he moved to Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. He graduated from Zaporozhye National Technical University and was a soldier of the State Border Service of Ukraine. As of 1999 he lives in Kiev.
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