{"id":406296,"date":"2026-01-11T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:30:13","slug":"spartak-mikayelyan-to-make-his-professional-mma-debut-at-tuff-n-uff-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406296\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartak Mikayelyan to Make His Professional MMA Debut at Tuff-N-Uff 151"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/category\/mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                   <a href=\"#comments\" class=\"text-secondary\" style=\"font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;\"><br \/>\n                          \ud83d\udcac<\/p>\n<p>                            Comment<\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                      Jan. 11, 2026, 1:39 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>                      Author:<\/p>\n<p>                        <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/author\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                          Vahe Hakobyan<br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/ru\/contacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportaran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armenian fighter <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/post\/chempion-mira-spartak-mikaelyan-sleduyushij-boj-provedu-v-profi-mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spartak Mikayelyan<\/a> will make his professional mixed martial arts debut. His first opponent will be 36-year-old American Victor Rackliff (5\u20136). The bout will take place on January 22 in Las Vegas as part of the Tuff-N-Uff 151 event.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Rackliff competed actively in MMA from 2006 to 2013, after which he shifted his focus to jiu-jitsu tournaments. He also has experience competing in bare-knuckle fights.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that another Armenian representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/post\/david-mgoyan-vystupit-na-tuff-n-uff-151-v-las-vegase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Mgoyan<\/a>, will also step into the octagon at this event.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Spartak Mikayelyan is the reigning IMMAF MMA world champion and was <a href=\"https:\/\/sportaran.com\/en\/post\/spartak-mikaelyan-priznan-luchshim-bojcom-mma-2025-sredi-lyubitelej\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named<\/a>\u00a0the International Federation\u2019s Best Fighter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tuff.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/playstake.casino\/landing?c=mkx8q6yr&amp;offer=aratan200&amp;utm_source=sportaran&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=hb_sportaran_global_display&amp;utm_term=display\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                            <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/name_300x250_px_30.gif\" alt=\"Playstake Casino\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-ad-img\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sportaran\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sportaran\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegram Sportaran<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                          Updated: Jan. 11, 2026, 3:28 p.m.\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA \ud83d\udcac Comment Jan. 11, 2026, 1:39 p.m. Author: Vahe Hakobyan Sportaran Armenian fighter Spartak Mikayelyan will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-406296","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406296","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=406296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}