{"id":349077,"date":"2025-12-16T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349077\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:40:08","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-reveals-what-hed-like-to-do-after-his-mma-career-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349077\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan reveals what he&#8217;d like to do after his MMA career ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arman Tsarukyan has spoken about what he would like to do once his mixed martial arts career comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Arman Tsarukyan is in a tricky spot. Despite demolishing Dan Hooker in their UFC Qatar main event, Arman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-324s-justin-gaethje-explains-why-he-wont-accept-arman-tsarukyans-offer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">didn\u2019t get the call<\/a> to be part of the UFC 324 main event for the interim UFC lightweight championship. Instead, that went to Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethje, who will compete for the belt next month.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-claims-behind-the-scenes-issues-contributed-arman-tsarukyan-snub\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White claims \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 issues contributed to UFC\u2019s latest Arman Tsarukyan title shot snub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan, meanwhile, is on the outside looking in, with Dana White making it perfectly clear that he isn\u2019t in the promotion\u2019s good books right now. He is obviously one of the most talented fighters in the entire division, and yet, he can\u2019t quite get the shot that he has been looking for.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Tsarukyan spoke about what else he would like to do in his athletic career outside of mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arman Tsarukyan intends to take up triathlon once he retires from MMA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take up triathlon altogether. I\u2019m very good at riding a bicycle and I swim well; just add running and you\u2019ll be traveling the world. There are competitions, the communities are diverse, you meet\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5HwuAynLM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/j5HwuAynLM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Corner MMA (@RedCorner_MMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedCorner_MMA\/status\/2000828588288028710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan discusses future career plans after MMA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no (I won\u2019t stop training after my career), I\u2019m going to take up triathlon,\u201d he told ACBJJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019m very good at riding a bicycle and I swim well, just add running and you\u2019ll be traveling the world, there are competitions, the communities are diverse, you meet different people and it\u2019s such an interesting hobby,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/12\/16\/arman-tsarukyan-announces-shock-plan-for-career-after-ufc-its-such-an-interesting-hobby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When will Arman Tsarukyan get a crack at the world title? Let us know your thoughts, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan has spoken about what he would like to do once his mixed martial arts career comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-349077","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\/349077","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=349077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}