{"id":720884,"date":"2026-06-07T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720884\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:13:08","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-bets-1-million-on-justin-gaethje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720884\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan Bets $1 Million On Justin Gaethje"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion, Justin Gaethje, collides with reigning 155-pound kingpin, Ilia Topuria, to unify the division title at UFC Freedom 250<\/a> next weekend (Sun., June 14, 2026) in front of the White House on the South Lawn in Washington, D.C., to celebrate America\u2019s 250th anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gaethje is the second-biggest underdog on the historic card, sitting anywhere from +450 to +540, but he apparently has a believer in No. 2-ranked Lightweight Arman Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n

So much so that the Armenian hot-head<\/a> seemingly bet $1 million on \u201cThe Highlight\u201d to pull off the massive upset \u2014 for a potential return of $5.7 million.<\/p>\n

During a stream with goofball boxing personality<\/a> Deen The Great and former boxing champion Adrien Broner, Tsarukyan was talked into placing the monster wager on Gaethje.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time Gaethje fought [as an underdog], everyone thought he\u2019d lose, but he always wins,\u201d Tsarukyan said. \u201cWe can put maybe like $50k?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, someone in the background suggested betting $1 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a million, I have to call a couple of guys,\u201d Tsarukyan replied.<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan then entered $1 million into the betting app and showed the crew. Moments later, someone appeared to press the bet button, causing Tsarukyan to jump out of his seat as instant regret seemingly hit his entire body.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s address the two elephants in the room.<\/p>\n

First, this could be completely fake. Someone on the stream mentions that the betting app is a sponsor, and, having worked with sportsbooks before myself, they produce a ton of fake bet slips.<\/p>\n

So, either Tsarukyan is going to get an angry phone call from his bosses for doing something he is not allowed to do \u2014 and possibly get himself into even more trouble<\/a> \u2014 or we are eventually going to find out this was all a hoax.<\/p>\n

Either way, it was a wild clip.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Tsarukyan is still serving as the backup fighter for the UFC Freedom 250 main event. But with his timeline closing for when he is willing to cut weight<\/a>, it looks more likely that he will be wrestling Tony Ferguson one day before UFC White House for Real American Freestyle (RAF).<\/p>\n

For the latest UFC White House-related news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion, Justin Gaethje, collides with reigning 155-pound kingpin, Ilia Topuria, to unify…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620,14855],"class_list":["post-720884","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-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720884","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=720884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}