{"id":297879,"date":"2025-11-21T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:54:07","slug":"its-on-arman-tsarukyan-headbutts-dan-hooker-during-ufc-qatar-face-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297879\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s on! Arman Tsarukyan headbutts Dan Hooker during UFC Qatar face-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things got heated at the UFC Qatar<\/a> ceremonial weigh-ins when main event fighters Arman Tsarukyan and Dan Hooker hit the stage for their face-offs.<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan and Hooker have been talking mad trash<\/a> at each other for years, and that animosity finally boiled over into a physical confrontation one day before their main event fight in Doha, Qatar this Saturday (Nov. 22, 2025). After stepping on the scale for fans (full early weigh-in results here),<\/a> Tsarukyan strutted up to Hooker for the traditional pre-fight face off only to immediately headbutt the taller \u201cHangman\u201d square in the face.<\/p>\n

Security quickly stepped in to separate the two fighters, with Hooker laughing off the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go, let\u2019s go, I love it,\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cBring it on!\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan didn\u2019t even bother addressing the headbutt when Michael Bisping approached him with the mic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna show great knockout and gonna get my title next,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan has been very vocal about getting a lightweight title shot<\/a> against Ilia Topuria with a win over Hooker on Saturday night, but it\u2019s a crowded field at lightweight and Topuria has said he\u2019d prefer to fight<\/a> Paddy Pimblett if he has a choice. He might not, but the UFC is leaning towards the ultra-popular Justin Gaethje facing Topuria when the rising Spanish star returns.<\/p>\n

That return will reportedly take place in Los Angeles<\/a> for the first major numbered card in January for UFC\u2019s new broadcast deal with Paramount \/ CBS. Can Tsarukyan create enough of a stir in Qatar to lock in a title shot? He\u2019s clearly going to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things got heated at the UFC Qatar ceremonial weigh-ins when main event fighters Arman Tsarukyan and Dan Hooker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-297879","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","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297879","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=297879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}