Arman Tsarukyan thinks Islam Makhachev was the only lightweight who could outwrestle him<\/a><\/p>\nTsarukyan knows that he isn\u2019t in the UFC\u2019s good books right now and that if he wants a championship opportunity, he needs to try and earn his way back to the top.<\/p>\n
In the eyes of Michael Bisping, it could even be the case that the winner of the upcoming BMF title fight between Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira could jump above Tsarukyan in the pecking order with a big win at UFC 326.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bisping\u2019s view on BMF title winner leapfrogging Tsarukyan<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re fighting for the BMF belt, and that\u2019s very cool,\u201d Bisping said on his YouTube channel. \u201cThere\u2019s only people at lightweight and welterweight that have had the opportunity to fight for that belt. However, they both want to get back with every fiber in their body. They want to be the undisputed champion of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, it\u2019s going to be hard because Charles got knocked out against Ilia, Max got knocked out against Ilia, and right now, we\u2019ve also got an interim champion by the name of Justin Gaethje. And both of these guys have knocked out or finished Justin Gaethje. But Justin Gaethje is the interim champion of the world, and if things flow as they\u2019re supposed to, then the interim champion faces the undisputed champion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWill they leapfrog Arman Tsarukyan?\u201d Bisping said. \u201cArman Tsarukyan, as we know, is out there, he\u2019s talking, he\u2019s pissed off, he\u2019s the rightful No. 1 contender, and all the rest of it. He\u2019s not. There\u2019s an interim champion. That fight needs to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway go out there and do something crazy, if we get Charles Oliveira finishing Max Holloway in sensational fashion, jumping over the octagon, running into the crowd like Jose Aldo in Rio de Janeiro, or like Charles Oliveira last time, in October in Rio de Janeiro? If something like that happens and the fans want it, guess what? Ilia Topuria or Justin Gaethje, they would welcome it.<\/p>\n
Quotes via MMA Fighting<\/a><\/p>\nDo you agree? Let us know in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC commentator Michael Bisping believes the BMF title winner at UFC 326 could leapfrog Arman Tsarukyan in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-501193","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\/501193","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=501193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}