{"id":43016,"date":"2025-08-04T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43016\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:33:08","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-reveals-that-khabib-nurmagomedov-was-his-biggest-mma-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43016\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan reveals that Khabib Nurmagomedov was his biggest MMA inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan has revealed that Khabib Nurmagomedov was his biggest MMA inspiration growing up.<\/p>\n

\"Khabib<\/p>\n

As we know, Khabib Nurmagomedov is an absolute legend within the world of mixed martial arts. He has achieved things that few would\u2019ve thought possible, which includes completing his career with an unbeaten record of 29-0. Even some of the greatest to ever do it haven\u2019t managed to go to an entire career unbeaten, which speaks volumes.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Arman Tsarukyan dismisses Justin Gaethje\u2019s UFC title demand<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, Khabib has been retired for nearly five years now, and he doesn\u2019t seem to be at all interested in breaking that retirement. With that being said, the influence he\u2019s had on the sport \u2013 and the lightweight division \u2013 is still being felt today. Up until recently, his close friend and training partner Islam Makhachev was the lightweight champion, a spot that many always believed he\u2019d end up in.<\/p>\n

One man who is currently a top contender<\/a> at 155 pounds is Arman Tsarukyan. In a recent interview, Arman spoke openly about how much he admired what Khabib was able to accomplish in his career.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan has revealed that Khabib Nurmagomedov was his biggest MMA inspiration growing up. As we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-43016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016","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=43016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}