{"id":228498,"date":"2025-10-21T04:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228498\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:26:07","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-is-the-biggest-challenge-for-ilia-topuria-per-kyle-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228498\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan is “the biggest challenge” for Ilia Topuria, per Kyle Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arman Tsarukyan is someone who could present a stiff test for Ilia Topuria according to a recently victorious UFC lightweight. Kyle Nelson is the combatant in question who thinks this and the former UFC featherweight introduced himself to the lightweight scene in a big way at UFC Vancouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Monster\u2019 secured a win against Matt Frevola over the weekend with Frevola being a former opponent of Arman Tsarukyan, someone who was supposed to fight for the 155 pound title in January.<\/p>\n

Touching on a few tendrils of this situation, Kyle Nelson has also fought Jai Herbert in the UFC previously, someone who in a lot of people\u2019s estimation gave current lightweight titleholder Ilia Topuria, one of his tougher fights inside of the cage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Arman Tsarukyan is \u201ca big lightweight that might be able to put his weight on\u201d Ilia Topuria, says Kyle Nelson<\/p>\n

Considering all aforementioned connections, when asked for his thoughts on Ilia Topuria as the UFC lightweight champion now that Nelson is plying his trade as a 155er going forward, Kyle Nelson said [via MMA Canada<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, Ilia\u2019s been on a pretty good run. Knocking out some people that you haven\u2019t seen knocked out like Max Holloway, the [Alexander] Volkanovski fight. Again, I think everybody\u2019s kind of already said this, but it might have been a little bit too soon after the knockout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you can\u2019t deny his [Topuria\u2019s] skill set. He\u2019s gone in there with guys like Bryce Mitchell\u2026 [Ryan] Hall, but like really great jiu-jitsu guys and he\u2019s held his own. You haven\u2019t really seen him out wrestled. You haven\u2019t seen him out struck. So he\u2019s definitely; I think we\u2019re going to see him sit at the top for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the biggest challenge I could see him running into might be someone like Arman [Tsarukyan], just like a big lightweight that might be able to put his weight on him. We saw against [Charles] Oliveira<\/a> when they were against the fence. It looked a little bit like maybe Oliveira had a little bit of like size and strength on Topuria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it\u2019ll be interesting to see somebody like Arman put Topuria in a position like that and see how he responds. But definitely in the striking, I mean, I don\u2019t see anybody kind of putting together like that kind of same crisp, clean boxing with that knockout power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan is someone who could present a stiff test for Ilia Topuria according to a recently victorious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[15504,49,48,641,3262,109083,638,82,640,75381],"class_list":{"0":"post-228498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arman-tsarukyan","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-ilia-topuria","13":"tag-kyle-nelson","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228498","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=228498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}