MMA Fighting<\/a> on Friday. \u201cHe kept throwing his hands up. If you watch the match with me and Mugzy, I clubbed Mugzy the same, and Mugzy took it like the man because he is a man. I was very shocked to see a UFC fighter that\u2019s supposed to be some badass cry to the ref so much. But I\u2019ll tell you what, if he tries to hit me this time, I\u2019ll be ready to look for it. So, it wouldn\u2019t be smart for him.\u201d<\/p>\nTsarkuyan is one of the top lightweights in the world and expects to challenge for the UFC title sometime this year. Despite that, Poullas isn\u2019t afraid to engage with the credentialed MMA star in whatever venue will have them. The two were briefly linked to a grappling bout earlier this month, and Poullas made at least some cursory efforts to court the UFC and Dana White. However, that seems unlikely to happen for Poullas, but if if possible to fight Tsarukyan in MMA, the social media star says he\u2019s ready to do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any direct communication,\u201d Poullas said when asked about speaking with Dana White. \u201cThere\u2019s been going through some people to figure some things out, but I don\u2019t think anything\u2019s going to happen with that. But I think it would be great to find an organization to cover an MMA fight between me and him, whether it be a streaming company or whatever platform it is. So, yeah, I think that would be great. I\u2019d love to do something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the UFC has been content to allow Tsarkuyan his forays into other combat sports, it\u2019s unlikely the promotion would allow one of its top contenders to do an MMA fight elsewhere, meaning fans of the beef will most likely have to content themselves settle things on the RAF mats on Saturday. And when that happens, Poullas anticipates a different outcome than their first affair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, I don\u2019t know what the score is going to be, but I think I get my hand raised this time, for sure,\u201d Poullas said. \u201cI put in a lot of work. I feel a lot better than last match. My last match, I didn\u2019t really have a proper training camp, and I did have one this time, so I feel great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgio Poullas isn\u2019t backing down from Arman Tsarukyan. In February, Poullas, a social media influencer, faced off with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,214253,214254,85,14855],"class_list":["post-568896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568896","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=568896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}