Arman Tsarukyan apologizes to Dana White and asks for a title shot

Arman Tsarukyan has precocious been successful the MMA public's attraction again, but not lone due to the fact that of his fights. This experienced lightweight combatant has decided to publically apologize to UFC leaders, alert that his erstwhile actions earnestly jeopardized his accidental to combat for the title. During a impermanent quality connected a podcast hosted by Daniel Cormier, the archetypal challenger sent a connection straight to Dana White and Hunter Campbell without further ado.

"Dana and Hunter, forgive me. Give maine a rubric fight. I'll beryllium a bully boy, I americium a bully boy."

This connection comes aft a bid of problems that person followed the vocation of the talented combatant from Armenia. Last year, helium was expected to clash with Islam Makhachev successful a rubric match, but pulled retired conscionable a time earlier the combat owed to a backmost injury. Such a determination angered the absorption of the organization, and later, erstwhile Makhachev vacated the rubric and moved to a higher category, the 28-year-old was skipped arsenic punishment.

Problems extracurricular the octagon

A further stroke to his representation came astatine UFC 300, erstwhile helium slapped a instrumentality portion walking retired to the cage earlier his combat against Charles Oliveira. Because of that incident, helium was fined 25 1000 dollars and suspended for 9 months, which was aboriginal reduced to six months. Not agelong after, astatine the weigh-in earlier the UFC Qatar event, helium head-butted Dan Hooker. Although helium won that lucifer successful November by stoppage, a caller accidental for the rubric eluded him again.

During the speech with Cormier, Tsarukyan emphasized that specified situations volition not beryllium repeated.

"I'm not going to deed anyone again... not for losing weight, not for punching back, not for headbutting, it's ne'er going to hap again."

However, helium admitted that 1 happening inactive bothers him, and it concerns the behaviour of the fans.

"If idiosyncratic tries to slap me, what bash I do? I person to deed him back, right?"

It remains to beryllium seen whether UFC absorption volition judge the apology and springiness a caller accidental to a combatant who is intelligibly trying to alteration his image.