{"id":706181,"date":"2026-05-31T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:24:08","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-vs-colby-covington-set-for-raf-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706181\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan Vs. Colby Covington Set For RAF 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 2-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan is set to collide with three-time Welterweight title challenger Colby Covington in the main event of Real American Freestyle (RAF) 11, which goes down Sat., July 18, 2026, inside UWM Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The match was announced shortly after Covington scored a win over former UFC champion Chris Weidman in the co-main event of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results\/447320\/raf-09-live-stream-results-discussion-and-video-highlights-gable-vs-romanov#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF 09<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tsarukyan improved to 5-0 in RAF last night when he smoked Mugzy, winning via technical fall in the very first round. He already has another match booked before Covington, as he takes on Tony Ferguson on June 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Armenian hot-head is still trying to get back into UFC\u2019s good graces and earn another title shot, but until then, he\u2019s staying busy on the wrestling mat with RAF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As for Covington, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-roster-watch-cuts-tracker-free-agent-aquisitions-mma\/444884\/retired-inactive-colby-covington-quietly-removed-from-ufc-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced his retirement <\/a>from MMA because he wants to get back to his first love: freestyle wrestling. However, he has also hinted that if he were still on the UFC roster, he wouldn\u2019t be able to compete against fellow active UFC fighters, which ultimately led to his retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Covington is currently 3-0 in RAF with wins over Luke Rockhold, Dillon Danis, and now Weidman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But before Covington and Tsarukyan finally collide, RAF travels to St. Louis, where Khamzat Chimaev and Danis will headline RAF 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the latest wrestling-related news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 2-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan is set to collide with three-time Welterweight title challenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,62052,85],"class_list":["post-706181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706181","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=706181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}