Arman Tsarukyan already has his next moves planned with UFC, new side-quests after RAF 7
Arman Tsarukyan has been a busy man since his latest RAF victory as his continues to establish himself as the king of combat sports side-quests.
Fresh off another dominant showing outside the UFC's Octagon, Arman Tsarukyan isn’t wasting any time mapping out what comes next. Competing this past Saturday at RAF 7, the top UFC lightweight contender delivered an impressive and controlled performance in his much-anticipated wrestling rematch with Giorgio Poullas . Tsarukyan won the match by a 9-3 decision after their first encounter in February ended in a chaotic, controversial brawl .
Speaking Monday on "The Ariel Helwani Show," Tsarukyan said Saturday's rematch didn’t quite unfold the way he expected, but still reinforced the gap between himself and the opposition. "It was so clean," Tsarukyan told Uncrowned. "He didn't even punch me once, and I thought it was going to be kind of the same, a little bit cleaner but he [was going] play same dirty game, but he was just wrestling like he's supposed to wrestle.
And I was surprised that, even when he was losing, he didn't want to cancel [the match by getting disqualified]. "I can fight anywhere, anytime. I'm a fighter.
It's a thing that I'm living for, you know? I wake up, I go to the gym, I fight — and this regular guy, he wrestles and go to the beach and do his influencer thing. But I fight every single day, it's my thing.
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