{"id":558782,"date":"2026-04-01T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:31:09","slug":"mma-april-fools-day-2026-arman-tsarukyan-breaks-ufc-white-house-news-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558782\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA April Fool\u2019s Day 2026: Arman Tsarukyan breaks UFC White House \u2018news\u2019 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s April Fool\u2019s Day once again and you know what that means: Time to watch out for fake news!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is especially true in the world of combat sports, where some of your favorite fighters just can\u2019t help but get up to all kinds of mischief whether it be a \u201cHUGE FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT,\u201d a shocking retirement, or just the usual pranks and gags that guys and gals get up to when they have way too much time on their hands between fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Case in point, the calendar barely flipped to April first when No. 1 lightweight contender and grappling enthusiast Arman Tsarukyan took to Instagram to announce that his long-awaited grudge match with Ilia Topuria is on for the main event of UFC White House with Justin Gaethje out of the June 14 lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI guess it\u2019s my lucky day,\u201d Tsarukyan wrote. \u201cGet well soon, Justin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out more social media shenanigans from the combat sports world below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s April Fool\u2019s Day once again and you know what that means: Time to watch out for fake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[829,216957,99,6493,10080],"class_list":{"0":"post-558782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-one-championship","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ufc","12":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}