{"id":740781,"date":"2026-06-16T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740781\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:37:11","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-confirms-hell-buy-gaethje-promised-ram-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740781\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan confirms he&#8217;ll buy Gaethje promised RAM truck"},"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> will follow through on his promise to buy <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> a RAM truck after the latter&#8217;s fourth-round stoppage of Ilia Topuria at UFC White House.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan had wagered $1 million on Gaethje as a heavy underdog, netting a $5.7 million payout when Topuria&#8217;s corner stopped the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> title fight Sunday. Before the bout, the Armenian lightweight vowed to gift Gaethje a truck if he pulled off the upset. Speaking on The Ariel Helwani Show, Tsarukyan confirmed the delivery is coming. &#8220;Of course,&#8221; he said, per Sherdog. &#8220;I just checked what color he wants&#8230; I&#8217;m competing on July 18 in St. Louis, and after St. Louis, I&#8217;m going to bring him a truck. RAM. And RAM is the UFC&#8217;s official sponsor, maybe they&#8217;re gonna give me discount 15 to 20%. If they don&#8217;t give me discount, it&#8217;s OK. It&#8217;s not that expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan eyeing title shot after Topuria loss<\/p>\n<p>Gaethje&#8217;s manager Ali Abdelaziz replied on social media that he would send Tsarukyan the specific color and model. The truck handoff will come after Tsarukyan competes in a wrestling match against Colby Covington at RAF 11 in St. Louis next month.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan has been frozen out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> title picture since withdrawing from a scheduled fight against Islam Makhachev last year. Topuria won the vacant belt by beating Charles Oliveira after Makhachev moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a>, then insisted on defending against Paddy Pimblett rather than Tsarukyan. Gaethje beat Pimblett for an interim strap before unifying against Topuria.<\/p>\n<p>The upset result reopens the division for the 23-3 Tsarukyan, widely considered the top contender before being passed over. His next UFC booking remains unannounced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Reported via:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan will follow through on his promise to buy Justin Gaethje a RAM truck after the latter&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-740781","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\/740781","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=740781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}