{"id":183484,"date":"2025-10-01T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183484\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:35:08","slug":"ufc-qatar-arman-tsarukyan-vs-dan-hooker-belal-muhammad-vs-ian-machado-garry-headline-november-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183484\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Qatar: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Dan Hooker, Belal Muhammad vs. Ian Machado Garry headline November event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"arman-tsarukyan-getty.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arman-tsarukyan-getty.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lightweights Arman Tsarukyan and Dan Hooker will headline UFC&#8217;s trip to Qatar on Nov. 22, UFC CEO Dana White announced Wednesday. In addition to Tsarukyan vs. Hooker, White confirmed a co-main event battle between former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad and rising contender Ian Machado Garry.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan is currently the No. 2-ranked lightweight in the official UFC rankings. Since dropping a decision to Mateusz Gamrot in June 2022, Tsarukyan has rattled off four consecutive wins, including notable victories over Beneil Dariush and Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>The win over Oliveira had earned Tsarukyan a title shot against Islam Makhachev, who spoiled Tsarukyan&#8217;s Octagon debut in 2019, at UFC 311 this past January. Less than two days before the planned bout with Makhachev, Tsarukyan was forced out of the fight due to a back injury. Due to withdrawing from that fight, Tsarukyan has not competed in MMA since April 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/boxing\/news\/ufc-320-fight-card-magomed-ankalaev-vs-alex-pereira-2-five-biggest-storylines-to-watch-in-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>UFC 320 fight card &#8212; Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira 2: Five biggest storylines to watch in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Brian Campbell                <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"UFC 320 fight card -- Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira 2: Five biggest storylines to watch in Las Vegas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pereira-ankalaev-313-weighins.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"270\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hooker, ranked No. 6, is coming off a similar layoff, having been out of action due to hand injuries since an August 2024 win over Mateusz Gamrot. The win over Gamrot was Hooker&#8217;s third in a row as he rebounded from a rough 1-4 stretch against elite competition.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad will be fighting for the first time since he lost the welterweight title to Jack Della Maddalena in May. The loss snapped a 10-fight winning streak for Muhammad, who had captured the championship with a UFC 304 win over Leon Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Garry defeated Carlos Prates to rebound from the first loss of his career, which came against Shavkat Rakhmonov in December.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Muhammad vs. Garry will have an argument for a title shot against the winner of the UFC 322 fight between Maddalena and Makhachev, who vacated his lightweight championship to move up in weight and challenge for the 170-pound title. That fight takes place one week prior to UFC Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Lightweights Arman Tsarukyan and Dan Hooker will headline UFC&#8217;s trip to Qatar on Nov. 22, UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-183484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}