{"id":46783,"date":"2025-08-05T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46783\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:08:10","slug":"ilia-topuria-vs-arman-tsarukyan-is-the-ufcs-plan-says-mma-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46783\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria Vs Arman Tsarukyan Is The UFC’s Plan, Says MMA Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has revealed that Ilia Topuria<\/a> vs Arman Tsarukyan for the UFC lightweight championship is still the promotion\u2019s plan at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n

As we know, Ilia Topuria is an absolute monster \u2013 and one of the biggest stars in all of mixed martial arts. However, it\u2019s unclear as to what his path is moving forward. He\u2019s got plenty of potential contenders at lightweight and perhaps even at welterweight, but nobody knows for sure what the UFC will book.<\/p>\n

If Chael Sonnen is to be believed, though, Ilia Topuria vs Arman Tsarukyan<\/a> is the direction that they\u2019re going to head in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Chael Sonnen discusses Ilia Topuria vs Arman Tsarukyan<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of illness or injury, even if I\u2019m breaking news to you, I\u2019m not sharing my opinion. I\u2019m sharing a fact with you: It\u2019s Arman vs. Ilia,\u201d Sonnen told MMA Junkie. \u201cThat is 100 percent the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a couple things (that have changed for Tsarukyan),\u201d Sonnen said. \u201cI\u2019m obviously coming to you with information, whether I should have or shouldn\u2019t have. Secondly, I was the best man at his wedding and his name is Darryl Christian and he\u2019s the wrestling coach of Arman Tsarukyan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThird of all, I just spoke to coach (Sam Calavitta) who wanted to film Chimaev training, and it turned out Tsarukyan is in the room. And a bigger tell also is what Ilia did a week ago, which he said, \u2018I don\u2019t want the fight.\u2019 The greats, they don\u2019t even know they have it. \u2026 Ilia\u2019s first move for doing a fight is to deny the fight. The only person that he said he\u2019ll openly fight is Paddy.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Tsarukyan) got put through a purgatory and he had to get out of it, but he did,\u201d Sonnen said. \u201cWhen he showed up, got licensed, weighed in, went through a training camp and he has to sit in the first row and even watch Paddy \u2018The Baddy\u2019 get in the ring and get the attention and not him, I\u2019m just saying, there is an appreciation, historically, that has shined down \u2013 and it\u2019s also going to be shown to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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