UFC light-weight contender Arman Tsarukyan is eager about preventing “dummy” Michael Chandler subsequent, saying that “he’s previous and it’s time to retire.”
Tsarukyan, the No. 9 ranked UFC light-weight, recently defeated Damir Ismagulov for the biggest win of his career at UFC Vegas 66. Simply 26 years of age, Tsarukyan is now 6-2 total within the Octagon, and he seems like a future title contender. In truth, he was one of many few fighters who really gave UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev a troublesome struggle, which he did in his UFC debut again in 2018.
Tsarukyan’s purpose is to get again to the title image, and the win over Ismagulov strikes him one step nearer to the highest of the division. Subsequent, he’ll have to beat one other prime fighter with a view to transfer up the rankings, and it looks like he has hit his sights set on the top-five ranked Chandler. Though Chandler is coming off of a submission loss to Dustin Poirier, everybody is aware of he’s among the finest lightweights on this planet, and Tsarukyan desires to tackle this problem subsequent.
Chatting with Hardcore MMA (by way of Red Corner MMA), Tsarukyan defined why he desires to struggle Chandler.
“(Chandler) must retire already. All of them have to retire. (Beneil) Dariush, no, not him. Chandler, Poirier, (Justin) Gaethje. Simply eliminate them. Get rid of from the highest 15. All they do is struggle one another and that’s it. They don’t wish to struggle anybody. These three guys are my least favourite fighters,” Tsarukyan mentioned (h/t MMAFighting.com).
“After all (I’d struggle them). Chandler isn’t a risk. He can’t do something to Islam. He expenses like a bull in rounds one and two. In case you watch his struggle with Gaethje, he fought like a dummy. You’re a wrestler. Why are you preventing in stand-up with him? You choose him up, set him down, and don’t even get the place. Why did you even choose him up? Even threw him over the shoulder. You name {that a} wrestler? In case you choose him up, you must get the place. No logic. He’s previous and it’s time to retire.”
It will likely be fascinating to see who the UFC matches up Tsarukyan with subsequent, and if the promotion likes this proposed struggle towards Chandler in what would pit two of the very best lightweights in MMA towards one another.
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