Arman Tsarukyan might be Ilia Topuria\u2019s kryptonite.<\/p>\n
To many within the MMA community, Tsarukyan is the obvious No. 1 contender for the UFC Lightweight Championship. \u201cAhalkalakets\u201d has found himself on the outside looking in, however. Justin Gaethje has first dibs on Topuria\u2019s 155-pound gold after capturing the interim title in a unanimous decision win over Paddy Pimblett.<\/p>\n
Still, the feeling is that it\u2019s only a matter of time before Tsarukyan is booked for another title fight. The greatest UFC flyweight of all time, Demetrious Johnson, took to his YouTube channel<\/a> to share his confidence in Tsarukyan. In fact, \u201cMighty Mouse\u201d feels Tsarukyan has the best shot at dethroning Topuria (h\/t MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cAfter training with him, if he fights Ilia Topuria, I think he has the athletic ability, the skillset, the mixed martial artist, and the mindset to be able to beat Ilia Topuria,\u201d Johnson said of Tsarukyan on his YouTube channel. \u201cDoes he deserve a title shot over Justin Gaethje? To be honest with you, Arman Tsarukyan should have fought either Justin Gaethje or Paddy Pimblett for the interim title, but he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cThey didn\u2019t choose him. They chose Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett, Justin Gaethje beat Paddy Pimblett, so by law, the interim champion should be fighting Ilia Topuria next, and that\u2019s a fight that needs to happen. After that, Arman Tsarukyan should be fighting the winner of Justin Gaethje vs. Ilia Topuria. I think Arman Tsarukyan has the best chance in the lightweight division to beat Ilia Topuria.\u201d<\/p>\n Tsarukyan has been on UFC\u2019s bad side ever since he failed to weigh in for his planned Jan. 2025 title fight against Islam Makhachev. It was a highly anticipated bout that never happened due to an injury. UFC CEO Dana White has claimed that other issues behind the scenes<\/a> have hindered Tsarukyan\u2019s spot.<\/p>\n Do you think Arman Tsarukyan will ever get to share the Octagon with Ilia Topuria? Chat it up in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan might be Ilia Topuria\u2019s kryptonite. To many within the MMA community, Tsarukyan is the obvious No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-470888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470888","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=470888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}