{"id":297973,"date":"2025-11-20T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297973\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:19:09","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-struggles-with-weight-ahead-of-ufc-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297973\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan struggles with weight ahead of UFC Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan is set to chase another title shot against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/8\/23\/22637968\/ufc-266-dan-hooker-fighting-nasrat-haqparast-dumbass-arman-tsarukyan-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heated rival<\/a> Dan Hooker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/393212\/latest-ufc-qatar-fight-card-espn-start-time-date-location-arman-vs-hooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Qatar main event<\/a> this weekend (Sat., Nov. 22, 2025) inside ABHA Arena in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But hours before official weigh-ins, a bit of pre-fight drama may be brewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A leaked video surfaced showing Tsarukyan struggling to make the Lightweight limit of 156 pounds, with audio in Russian mentioning \u201c159\u201d \u2014 suggesting the top contender is roughly three pounds over, with time running out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The clip is difficult to understand with overlapping Russian chatter, but the number is clear enough to raise eyebrows. For what it\u2019s worth, Tsarukyan has only missed weight once in his UFC career (against Matt Frevola at UFC 257), and he still has more than eight hours to shave off those final pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stick with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmamania.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAMania.com<\/a> for full UFC Qatar coverage, including official weigh-in updates later tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC Qatar: \u201cTsarukyan vs. Hooker\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan is set to chase another title shot against heated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-297973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}