Goodbye Ahalkalakets, hello Batman!<\/p>\n
On Monday, top-ranked UFC Lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan revealed to Ariel Helwani<\/a> that he\u2019s officially changing his nickname to \u201cBatman.\u201d For years, Tsarukyan\u2019s official nickname \u201cAhalkalakets,\u201d a reference to his hometown, but fans have pushed for the change. Tsarukyan has been repeatedly called the Armenian Bruce Wayne\/Armenian Batman online, a reference to his combination of immense wealth<\/a> and elite fighting skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n What Arman loses in alliteration, he more than makes up for in marketability. I\u2019ve been writing about Tsarukyan since his 2019 UFC debut, and not once have I been managed to spell \u201cAhalkalakets\u201d without copious use of the copy\/paste input! Fight fans aren\u2019t always accepting of new nicknames (ask Ilia Topuria)<\/a>, but this one oughta stick.<\/p>\n Fortunately, Tsarukyan\u2019s endless side questing<\/a> has indeed come to a momentary conclusion. Currently riding a five-fight win streak over the likes of Charles Oliveira and Dan Hooker, Tsarukyan will return to action at UFC 331<\/a> next month in a five-round fight versus knockout artist Mauricio Ruffy. If victorious, Tsarukyan should be expected to finally secure a title shot, although the jury is out on when champion Justin Gaethje will return to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goodbye Ahalkalakets, hello Batman! On Monday, top-ranked UFC Lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan revealed to Ariel Helwani that he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-859471","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859471","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=859471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}