{"id":948630,"date":"2026-10-27T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948630\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:06:13","slug":"arman-agrees-to-fight-old-chinny-volkanovski-since-justin-gaethje-is-too-scared-to-defend-ufc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948630\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman agrees to fight old, chinny Volkanovski since Justin Gaethje is too scared to defend UFC title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Arman Tsarukyan wants to fight for the lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSomeone is trying to duck me; it\u2019s Justin Gaethje,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/482193\/alexander-volkov-soars-past-alex-pereira-ufc-333-rankings-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 2-ranked<\/a> contender told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IGh3NhqKz9A?si=f0jnbH42m4wazm9W\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Yee<\/a>. \u201cNow he\u2019s talking about retirement. Either UFC is going to pay him so much money that he\u2019s going to fight, or he\u2019s just going to retire. They told me they\u2019re going to let me know at the end of November. I would fight [Volkanovski]. I think it\u2019s a good fight for me stylistically. He\u2019s old, bad chin. He\u2019s a tough opponent, but he\u2019s a little bit old now and with me, it\u2019s a perfect fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan wants to fight for the lightweight title. \u201cSomeone is trying to duck me; it\u2019s Justin Gaethje,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,322511,702,4454],"class_list":["post-948630","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-sports","tag-ufc-333","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948630","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=948630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}