{"id":720740,"date":"2026-06-07T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:25:09","slug":"tsarukyan-places-1-million-bet-on-gaethje-to-beat-topuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720740\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsarukyan Places $1 Million Bet On Gaethje To Beat Topuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/arman-tsarukyan\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arman Tsarukyan<\/a> has backed <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/justin-gaethje\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> to pull off one of the biggest upsets in recent UFC history \u2014 and put a million dollars behind the conviction. <\/p>\n<p>Arman placed the wager live on a streaming session with Deen The Great and four-weight boxing champion Adrien Broner. Tsarukyan took out his phone mid-stream and placed the bet, showing his screen to the camera. At the odds available \u2014 some bookmakers offering as high as 4\/1 on Gaethje \u2014 a winning wager would return $5,700,000. His entourage appeared as surprised as anyone watching. <\/p>\n<p>The legitimacy of the bet has been questioned almost immediately. During the stream, Tsarukyan appeared to ask how many zeroes were in a million \u2014 a detail that has led some to question whether the wager was genuine or performed for the camera. <\/p>\n<p>The broader context adds another layer. Tsarukyan and Topuria have been trading barbs throughout fight week, with the champion calling him a man child and questioning his wealth. Placing a public million-dollar bet on Topuria&#8217;s opponent is the kind of move that keeps that rivalry at the front of the conversation \u2014 whether the money is real or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan has backed Justin Gaethje to pull off one of the biggest upsets in recent UFC history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-720740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720740","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=720740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}