{"id":439514,"date":"2026-01-28T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439514\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:04:07","slug":"arman-books-latest-side-quest-during-ufc-limbo-returns-to-raf06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439514\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman books latest side quest during UFC limbo, returns to RAF06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the promotion figures out what to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/3\/24423027\/arman-tsarukyan-remains-dana-white-doghouse-declining-abu-dhabi-gamrot-main-event-the-ufc-angered-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cangered\u201d UFC lightweight<\/a>, currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/417947\/ufc-releases-first-official-rankings-update-paramount-era-big-moves-justin-gaethje-jean-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked No. 2<\/a> at 155 pounds (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/417653\/ouch-dana-white-shares-picture-of-paddy-pimbletts-battered-face-after-ufc-324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because of this<\/a>), \u201cAhalkalakets\u201d will return to Real American Freestyle (RAF) to battle former Ohio state high school wrestling champion Georgio Poullas on Feb. 28 at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe set out to build something wrestling never had, a true professional home,\u201d said Chad Bronstein, co-founder and CEO of Real American Freestyle. \u201c2025 showed us that the appetite is there. 2026 is about building on that foundation and taking this league to an even bigger level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RAF06 will stream exclusively on FOX Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the promotion figures out what to do with the \u201cangered\u201d UFC lightweight, currently ranked No. 2 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,128793,82,702],"class_list":["post-439514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439514","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=439514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}