{"id":558089,"date":"2026-03-23T01:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:26:23","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-offers-to-save-featherweight-after-movsar-evloevs-ufc-london-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558089\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan offers to ‘save’ featherweight after Movsar Evloev’s UFC London win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arman Tsarukyan<\/a> is reheating the conversation about a drop to the featherweight division after UFC Fight Night 270<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s headliner at The O2 in London was meant to produce the next challenger for 145-pound champion Alexander Volkanovski<\/a>. The end result saw Movsar Evloev (20-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC) defeat Lerone Murphy by majority decision<\/a> to stay undefeated and stake his claim at the belt, but UFC CEO Dana White was noncommittal about his shot post-fight.<\/p>\n

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That raised an eyebrow for Tsarukyan (23-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC), who has previously teased a potential move down in weight class if it meant a faster path to a UFC belt. With the door for Volkanovski’s next fight seemingly somewhat open, Tsarukyan has thrown has name back in the hat (via Threads<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan, No. 2 in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie lightweight rankings<\/a>, has been searching for his next career move after be stifled from a championship opportunity in his weight class.<\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old had previously expressed a willingness to move down, but Volkanovski was skeptical about it<\/a> and whether he would be deserving of an immediate chance at gold.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Arman Tsarukyan offers to ‘save’ 145lbs after Evloev’s UFC London win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan is reheating the conversation about a drop to the featherweight division after UFC Fight Night 270.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,17501,64,63,958,66246,786,39840,785,4973,85,44865],"class_list":["post-558089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-arman-tsarukyan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-white","tag-featherweight","tag-fighting","tag-lerone-murphy","tag-mma","tag-movsar-evloev","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558089","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=558089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}