{"id":573553,"date":"2026-03-30T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573553\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:38:15","slug":"beef-squashed-georgio-poullas-pays-ufcs-arman-tsarukyan-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573553\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef squashed, Georgio Poullas pays UFC&#8217;s Arman Tsarukyan $10K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 5:10 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No more fighting between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/arman-tsarukyan\/\" data-autotag=\"a62df0ae-c4a1-4790-b38a-bcca0036f552\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Arman Tsarukyan<\/a> and Georgio Poullas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The two have settled their differences and squashed their beef following their rematch in the main event of Saturday&#8217;s RAF 07 in Tampa, Fla. Tsarukyan and Poullas faced off a second time\u00a0Saturday after a heated first encounter in the RAF wrestling mats last month that ended with Tsarukyan kneeing and punching Poullas, sparking a brawl between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This second time around, Tsarukyan defeated Poullas by points. After the match, Poullas, who&#8217;s a wrestler and influencer famous for his &#8220;Take me down, win $1,000&#8221; challenge, paid the UFC lightweight contender $10,000 and the two shook hands and hugged it out in the end. You can watch their amicable exchange in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWdd_XHDp5H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/83820059007-usatsi-23052691.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 5:10 p.m. ET No more fighting between Arman Tsarukyan and Georgio Poullas. The two have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[202558,64,63,786,785,85,206029,206030,213548,203145,203781,207007,202563,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-573553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmma","tag-sstsnmma","tag-tagarman-tsarukyan","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573553","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=573553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}