{"id":612638,"date":"2026-04-17T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:35:22","slug":"who-scammed-whom-arman-tsarukyan-claims-ryan-garcia-welched-on-40k-body-shot-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612638\/","title":{"rendered":"Who scammed whom? Arman Tsarukyan claims Ryan Garcia welched on $40k body shot bet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Midnight Mania!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

The quick recap of this story is that Arman Tsarukyan bet $40k that Ryan Garcia couldn\u2019t drop his buddy with a body shot, won that bet, and now claims Garcia is refusing to pay him. Garcia, conversely, argues that Tsarukyan lied about his buddy\u2019s combat experience and claims he\u2019s the one getting scammed. Now, they\u2019re trying to box\/fight each other.<\/p>\n

Is any of it real? In the modern live stream era \u2026 who knows.<\/p>\n

I spent a majority of this clip wondering who was throwing whom.<\/p>\n

Cody Durden wants another short-notice shot at Allan Nascimento, who unfortunately will most likely NOT be fighting<\/a> at UFC Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

Maybe Jack Della Maddalena couldn\u2019t escape from Islam Makhachev\u2019s grasp, but Craig Jones still knows his stuff.<\/p>\n

Paulo Costa does not look small standing next to the current Light Heavyweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Jiri Prochazka and his longtime partner.<\/p>\n

Slips, rips, and KO clips<\/p>\n

Lead leg body kick, reload, left hook is a great combination, and it surely helps that the liver kick landed with such an audible thud.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a rough way to lose an undefeated record.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Russian combat sports, we now know that rappers are better at fighting than football players.<\/p>\n

Get involved with Mania community in The Feed!<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/a>\"MMA<\/p>\n

Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Midnight Mania! Let\u2019s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,43768,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-612638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-midnight-mania","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612638","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=612638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}