Arman Tsarukyan and his family may be rich now, but that wasn\u2019t always the case according to his older brother Artur.<\/p>\n
Much has been made in the MMA world of the Tsarukyan family\u2019s money. Their patriarch Nairi Tsarukyan is a multi-millionaire<\/a> through construction, allowing Arman to live a life of luxury<\/a> while other fighters struggle to keep financially afloat on the way up to the top. The lightweight contender\u2019s Instagram is full of expensive cars, watches, and clothes.<\/p>\n That\u2019s led to many accusations that Arman is a \u2019spoiled rich kid,\u2019<\/a> but according to Artur, he and his brother were actually pretty poor through their childhood.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of people have no clue, they think we were born in a golden cradle,\u201d Artur told Red Corner MMA. \u201cWe could say a lot of things about the way we used to live \u2026 I think all of us went through this stage of life when we were younger. We didn\u2019t have any wrestling shoes. Like, at all.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we trained together with Arman there were no wrestling shoes there,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen we used to come to the city center, we lived in the countryside back then in a sort of \u2018ghetto.\u2019 So we came into the city center and saw guys with Asics wrestling shoes. It had a wow effect on us. It\u2019s like Louis Vuitton or something like that now. We just don\u2019t talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n The family has come a long way<\/a> thanks to the hard work of Nairi Tsarukyan, and Arman has been pretty open and honest about the support he gets from his family. He\u2019s rich enough to pass on short notice fights, rich enough to buy fancy cars, and rich enough to make $500,000 wagers.<\/a> But in a recent interview he said he\u2019s not \u2018private jet or yacht rich.\u2019 Not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan and his family may be rich now, but that wasn\u2019t always the case according to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-389555","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\/389555","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=389555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}