{"id":578789,"date":"2026-04-01T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:28:12","slug":"mma-april-fools-day-2026-arman-tsarukyan-breaks-ufc-white-house-news-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578789\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA April Fool\u2019s Day 2026: Arman Tsarukyan breaks UFC White House \u2018news\u2019 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s April Fool\u2019s Day once again and you know what that means: Time to watch out for fake news!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is especially true in the world of combat sports, where some of your favorite fighters just can\u2019t help but get up to all kinds of mischief whether it be a \u201cHUGE FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT,\u201d a shocking retirement, or just the usual pranks and gags that guys and gals get up to when they have way too much time on their hands between fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Case in point, the calendar barely flipped to April first when No. 1 lightweight contender and grappling enthusiast Arman Tsarukyan took to Instagram to announce that his long-awaited grudge match with Ilia Topuria is on for the main event of UFC White House with Justin Gaethje out of the June 14 lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI guess it\u2019s my lucky day,\u201d Tsarukyan wrote. \u201cGet well soon, Justin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out more social media shenanigans from the combat sports world below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s April Fool\u2019s Day once again and you know what that means: Time to watch out for fake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,2843,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-578789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578789","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=578789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}