{"id":527555,"date":"2026-03-08T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:09:10","slug":"dana-white-not-thrilled-with-arman-tsarukyan-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527555\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White \u2018not thrilled\u2019 with Arman Tsarukyan right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His boss, UFC CEO Dana White, finally addressed Tsarukyan\u2019s latest controversy during the UFC 326 post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t love it, but that night was someone else\u2019s problem and not mine,\u201d White told the media during the UFC 326 post-fight press conference. \u201cThe division is heading up, and there are a lot of fun fights to make, and we\u2019ll get Arman figured out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White was then asked what might be next for Tsarukyan after the No. 1 contender claimed he recently spoke with UFC CBO Hunter Campbell about potential matchups against Justin Gaethje, Charles Oliveira, and Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d White said. \u201cI\u2019m not thrilled with Arman right now, and there are a lot of different reasons \u2014 it\u2019s not just the things you see publicly. I understand there was a lot of back and forth between [Arman and Georgio Poullas], but where there is smoke, there is fire. And Arman has been smoking a lot lately. So, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, it appears Tsarukyan may remain stuck in something of a UFC holding pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He is scheduled to compete in a grappling match in Brazil later this week and also has a rematch with Georgio Poullas booked for April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So while Tsarukyan may not be returning to the Octagon anytime soon, he\u2019ll certainly stay busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His boss, UFC CEO Dana White, finally addressed Tsarukyan\u2019s latest controversy during the UFC 326 post-fight press conference.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,193818,1396,46234,14855],"class_list":["post-527555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-326","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-videos","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527555","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=527555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}