Arman Tsarukyan reveals reason for fight withdrawal

One of the longtime contenders for the UFC lightweight title, 29-year-old Arman Tsarukyan, whitethorn person inadvertently revealed the existent crushed helium pulled retired of his rubric changeable against Islam Makhachev earlier this year. He missed retired connected a rubric changeable earlier this year, pulling retired conscionable days earlier UFC 311. At the time, helium claimed the crushed was a long-standing backmost injury, but galore fighters and fans suspected that the existent occupation was the value loss.

Tsarukyan has felt the consequences since that move. Dana White has bypassed him respective times successful organizing rubric fights, and challenger presumption has virtually eluded him. A fewer weeks ago, White officially announced that Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethje would combat for the interim belt, portion Tsarukyan remained connected the sidelines. Even aft his triumph implicit Dan Hooker astatine the UFC Qatar event, helium was not named an "interim" titleholder, which shocked fans.

In an interrogation with The Mac Life, White intelligibly suggested that the reasons for his withdrawal were not what they were initially presented as.

– You cognize what I didn’t do? I didn’t occurrence him, we’re not connected atrocious terms, we don’t hatred him, White said.

– This is not the concern I confronted Arman in. Arman is simply a man, helium knows however it each went down, helium knows what was going connected down the scenes. We each cognize that. Arman knows, helium added.

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Just a fewer days later, Tsarukyan himself seemed to further clarify the situation. In a video that appeared connected societal media, helium jokingly addressed his nutritionist:

– CapoNutrition is simply a s*x, don’t enactment with them, helium said with a laugh.

– This clip CapNutrition worked 100 percent, we didn’t miss the standard similar past time, helium added, inactive laughing.

The signaling was taken during combat week against Hooker, but has lone present go public. While this does not regularisation retired the anticipation of a backmost injury, it appears that the value nonaccomplishment process played a cardinal relation successful the withdrawal.

While waiting for caller opportunities successful the UFC, Arman remains progressive extracurricular the cage. This week helium announced 2 grappling matches against Shara Magomedov and Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov, showing that helium plans to support his precocious form.