Ilia Topuria slams 'man child' Arman Tsarukyan for playing rich guy game
UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria is not buying that Arman Tsarukyan comes from a wealthy family. Tsarukyan (23-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) has mentioned that his family is financially comfortable, but has played into the rich guy persona on social media by flaunting his watches, cars, and lavish lifestyle. Topuria (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) is not amused by any of it, and debunked the claim that Tsarukyan and his family are well off.
"He has the mind of a little kid, you know? ," Topuria said of Tsarukyan in a translated interview with ABC . "He's a man child who is playing a game.
I think he's playing the rich guy game and he's neither rich nor is his father, I'm telling you. He's just not. "I know a huge amount of rich people, none of them, none, like not a single one of them is like that, you know?
He's playing a game of buying a car and sending it to Russia to resell it. And I think he's not even rich, I'm telling you for real. He's like a loser.
" Tsarukyan will serve as the official backup for Topuria's title-unification bout against Justin Gaethje in the UFC Freedom 250 headliner on June 14 from the White House. This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Ilia Topuria: 'Man child' Arman Tsarukyan not rich – nor is his father