{"id":507002,"date":"2026-03-01T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:30:08","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-georgio-poullas-have-post-match-brawl-at-raf-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507002\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan, Georgio Poullas Have Post-Match Brawl at RAF 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/arman-tsarukyan\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arman Tsarukyan<\/a> finds himself in the controversial spotlight again following a post-fight brawl that erupted between him and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/raf-6\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF 6<\/a> opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/georgio-poullas\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgio Poullas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan defeated Poullas 5-3 in a close and competitive battle with plenty of tension. Tsarukyan wasn&#8217;t finished after the final whistle, however.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan shoved Poullas down and began to throw punches in an MMA-style ground-and-pound attack. The referee, fight officials, and both corners quickly intervened to separate the two.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan&#8217;s attack appeared to come as revenge for dirty tactics employed by Poullas during the match. Footage from the match shows Poullas slapping the back of Tsarukyan&#8217;s head and throwing punches.<\/p>\n<p>In one video, Tsarukyan&#8217;s team can be heard yelling in protest over Poullas&#8217; actions.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter) following the RAF event, Tsarukyan showed frustration and no remorse for the brawl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F*** around and find out,&#8221; Tsarukyan posted.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan has seemed to clash with the UFC over the past couple of years for a number of controversies. <\/p>\n<p>He was suspended following his win over Charles Oliveira at UFC 300 following an altercation with a fan during his entrance. Tsarukyan withdrew from a scheduled lightweight title fight with Islam Makhachev at UFC 311 just one day before the event, and he hasn&#8217;t received a title shot since. Tsarukyan also got physical with Dan Hooker during the UFC Qatar ceremonial weigh-ins back in November.<\/p>\n<p>This marked Tsarukyan&#8217;s RAF debut. Poullas, meanwhile, competed at RAF 5 in January, scoring a technical fall over Keelon Jimison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan finds himself in the controversial spotlight again following a post-fight brawl that erupted between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[15504,49,48,641,201959,638,200653,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-507002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arman-tsarukyan","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-georgio-poullas","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-raf-6","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507002","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=507002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}