after a lopsided drubbing<\/a> of Dillon Danis at Friday\u2019s event in Las Vegas, and discussed his future plans now that he has a title around his waist. He\u2019s hoping that more marquee names from the MMA world make their way over to RAF, including the long-retired \u201cGSP.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of names here, but I\u2019m focusing on MMA fighters with the big names,\u201d Tsarukyan said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to just wrestle with no names, I want to collect all big names, all the best fighters, so a lot of UFC fighters, good fighters signed. So we\u2019ll see, maybe GSP, they can bring in GSP, I would like to wrestle him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tsarukyan is currently the No. 1 contender at 155 pounds in the UFC, with 11 wins in his past 12 fights for the promotion, including victories over Mauricio Ruffy, Dan Hooker, Charles Oliveira, and Beneil Dariush. Despite having those highlights on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, he\u2019s still proud of dominating Danis to become an RAF champion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis for me ranked No. 1 because I won the title,\u201d Tsarukyan said. \u201cSo no matter vs. who, he could be not the best wrestler that I wrestled here in this organization, but he has a lot of followers. He can bring a lot of views, so to win this belt it means a lot for me and I\u2019m so excited to defend as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, as far as Tsarukyan is concerned, the beef is squashed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s OK because he knows what\u2019s going to happen if he\u2019s going to do something,\u201d Tsarukyan said. \u201cWe were ready for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
No matter who is next for Tsarukyan, RAF is committed to pushing him as one of the faces of the promotion. RAF co-founder announced Friday that an event in Tsarukyan\u2019s native Armenia is expected to take place in January, contingent upon Tsarukyan being available to headline.<\/p>\n
\u201cJan. 9,\u201d Bronstein said. \u201cAs long as Arman can close.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to go to Armenia,\u201d he added. \u201cArmenians have been great to RAF. They come, they support us. Arman\u2019s been with us\u2026 so we want to go and support it there and host an amazing event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan has long chased UFC gold, but he\u2019s also dreaming of an RAF matchup with UFC legend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,214253,214254,85],"class_list":["post-940705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-raf-wrestling","tag-raf-wrestling-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940705","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=940705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}