Arman Tsarukyan isn\u2019t exactly endearing himself with his bosses at the UFC, and his recent brawl at RAF 6 didn\u2019t help matters much.<\/p>\n
Despite a five-fight win streak and sitting at the top of the UFC\u2019s lightweight rankings, the 29-year-old contender still hasn\u2019t received another title shot after a fight week injury knocked him out of a scheduled bout against Islam Makhachev in 2025. To make matters worse, Tsarukyan headbutted Dan Hooker and shattered his nose ahead of their fight at UFC Qatar, which definitely rubbed UFC CEO Dana White the wrong way.<\/p>\n
This past weekend at RAF 6, Tsarukyan finished off his match against Georgio Poullas by tackling him to the ground and throwing punches, which ignited a huge brawl on stage before security could get the situation contained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t love it,\u201d White said about Tsarukyan\u2019s actions at the UFC 326 post-fight press conference. \u201cBut that night, that was somebody else\u2019s problem, not mine. That\u2019s really all I\u2019ve got to say about that. The division\u2019s heating up and lots of fun fights to make. We\u2019ll get Arman figured out.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the melee at RAF happened on somebody else\u2019s watch, Tsarukyan\u2019s actions seemingly only added to a growing list of grievances the UFC has against him right now.<\/p>\n
White didn\u2019t detail all of the issues he has with Tsarukyan but it appears there\u2019s a lot that needs to be figured out before he\u2019ll be back in the promotion\u2019s good graces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not thrilled with Arman right now,\u201d White said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s a lot of different reasons. It\u2019s not just the stuff that you see publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite Tsarukyan igniting a brawl by punching his opponent after the match, White said that he\u2019s not going to stop allowing fighters from competing in RAF moving forward.<\/p>\n
Instead, White believes that whole ordeal solely fell on Tsarukyan\u2019s shoulders and he\u2019s not making it any easier for the UFC to put trust in him again when it comes to a future title fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, there\u2019s plenty of guys that wrestle that have been respectful with other guys that they wrestled,\u201d White said. \u201cI understand there was some back and forth with those guys but where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire. Arman\u2019s been smoking a lot lately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan isn\u2019t exactly endearing himself with his bosses at the UFC, and his recent brawl at RAF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-526804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526804","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=526804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}