{"id":300503,"date":"2025-11-22T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:35:08","slug":"the-man-to-dethrone-ilia-topuria-pros-react-to-arman-tsarukyan-crushing-dan-hooker-at-ufc-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300503\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The man to dethrone Ilia Topuria\u2019: Pros react to Arman Tsarukyan crushing Dan Hooker at UFC Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arman Tsarukyan, you might just be the next challenger for the UFC lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The No. 1 contender cemented his case Saturday in the main event of UFC Qatar with a clinical win over Dan Hooker, dominating Hooker with his wrestling and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/458025\/arman-tsarukyan-wants-ilia-topuria-next-finishing-dan-hooker-with-arm-triangle-choke-in-ufc-qatar-main-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finishing him with an arm-triangle choke<\/a> in the second round. It was a spectacular performance for Tsarukyan, who spent much of 2025 on the shelf after missing out on a championship opportunity against Islam Makhachev this past January when a back injury forced him to withdraw from UFC 311 a day before fight night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Afterwards, Tsarukyan called for a shot at current champion Ilia Topuria, and several pros agreed that Tsarukyan is the most deserving contender at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Twitter, former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo said, in no uncertain terms, that Tsarukyan \u201cwill be the man to dethrone Ilia Topuria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See more social media reactions to the UFC Qatar main event below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan, you might just be the next challenger for the UFC lightweight title. The No. 1 contender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,701,44,41,39,42,40,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-300503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300503","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=300503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}