Arman Tsarukyan brought a little too much MMA to a wrestling event on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The No. 2-ranked UFC lightweight contender triggered a massive brawl at RAF 6<\/a> at the end of his match against Georgio Poullas, shoving his opponent down after time expired and throwing punches. All hell immediately broke loose, with more than a dozen people flooding the mat to either break up the fight or start a new one.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The chaos ended with three-time UFC title challenger Colby Covington escorting Poullas backstage, while fights also broke out in a crowd that had been chanting “USA” in favor of Poullas.<\/p>\n It had been a chippy match already, with the two wrestlers exchanging slaps and otherwise rough activity, and then tensions boiled over as the final seconds ticked away.<\/p>\n This is only the latest such incident for Tsarukyan, who famously punched a fan before his fight at UFC 300 in 2024<\/a> and allegedly broke Dan Hooker’s nose with a head-butt at weigh-ins last November<\/a>. He was competing in his second event for Real American Freestyle after dominating Lance Palmer at RAF 5 in January.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n It remains to be seen how Saturday’s antics will affect him as far as the UFC goes. He’s currently in a holding pattern, waiting for lightweight champion Ilia Topuria to face interim champ Justin Gaethje at some point in the (hopefully) near future. Many believed he was already deserving of a title shot after defeating Hooker, but all of this certainly won’t be helping his reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan brought a little too much MMA to a wrestling event on Saturday. The No. 2-ranked UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[52496,17501,64,63,786,216018,785,254506,210817,256206,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-511291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ariel-helwani","9":"tag-arman-tsarukyan","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-georgio-poullas","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-raf","16":"tag-real-american-freestyle","17":"tag-reuters-connect","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511291","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=511291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}