Arman Tsarukyan subscribes to the favored Mike Tyson quote, ‘Everybody’s received a plan till they get punched within the mouth.’ Particularly in terms of UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov.
On January 18, Tsarukyan will put that principle to a take a look at, although it received’t come towards Nurmagomedov. As an alternative, it’ll be towards the Corridor of Famer’s protege, Islam Makhachev, who simply occurs to be the promotion’s reigning light-weight world champion. Tsarukyan will problem the ‘Dagestani Destroyer’ for the 155-pound crown when the UFC heads to the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles for the primary pay-per-view occasion of 2025, UFC 311.
Nurmagomedov is anticipated to be in Makhachev’s nook that evening and can possible go into struggle evening with a well-thought-out recreation plan when Makhachev seeks his fourth profitable protection of the light-weight strap.
Undoubtedly serving to issues will likely be the truth that Makhachev already holds a victory over Tsarukyan below the UFC banner, besting the Armenian at UFC on ESPN+ 7 in April 2019.
Arman Tsarukyan is aware of find out how to disrupt makhachev’s recreation plan
After all, Tsarukyan thinks that efficiently throwing Makhachev off his recreation will come down to 1 not-so-simple job — hit the person actually, actually, laborious.
“I believe recreation plans can exit the window whenever you get hit with a tough punch,” Tsarukyan stated in an interview with ESPN MMA. “If I harm him actually badly, he’ll overlook about his recreation plan. It’s the identical for me. In my final struggle, Oliveira choked me, and after that second, I forgot my recreation plan fully. That’s why I’ve to harm him very badly within the first spherical. Then it received’t matter what recreation plan they’ve.”
Tsarukyan definitely has a knack for knocking his opponents out. In his 9 profession wins below the UFC banner, he’s scored highlight-reel KOs towards Christos Giagos, Joel Alvarez, Joaquim Silva, and Beneil Dariush.
