{"id":6269,"date":"2025-06-29T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:17:12","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-reacts-to-ilia-topurias-quick-victory-at-ufc-317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/arman-tsarukyan-reacts-to-ilia-topurias-quick-victory-at-ufc-317\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan Reacts to Ilia Topuria\u2019s Quick Victory at UFC 317"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1785\">Arman Tsarukyan quickly responded on social media after Ilia Topuria\u2019s swift win over Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC 317.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1787\" data-end=\"2113\">Ilia Topuria had already excited fans ahead of his bout. The \u201cMatador\u201d became the youngest double champion in the organization\u2019s history with a first-round knockout victory over Charles Oliveira. The Spanish fighter of Georgian origin successfully moved up to lightweight by defeating the No. 2 ranked fighter in the division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2205\"><strong data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2203\">Find out who the backup fighter was for Ilia Topuria vs Charles Oliveira at UFC 317.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2206\" data-end=\"2252\">Arman Tsarukyan Wants to Face Ilia Topuria<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2319\">Following Topuria\u2019s win, Arman Tsarukyan reacted on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2321\" data-end=\"2468\">\n<p data-start=\"2323\" data-end=\"2468\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t supposed to be Charles. I can finish Ilia, it\u2019s that simple. And he knows it too. That\u2019s why he\u2019s avoiding the first real challenger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was never supposed to be Charles. I can finish Ilia, simple as that. And he knows it too. That\u2019s why he\u2019s avoiding the real #1 contender.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arman Tsarukyan UFC (@ArmanUfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmanUfc\/status\/1939187912794354141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2821\">Arman Tsarukyan was the backup fighter for the UFC 317 main event and would have stepped in if either competitor had withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_18330\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vK_8-wGGbNo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2821\">In January, at UFC 311, Tsarukyan had to pull out of his title fight against Islam Makhachev due to back issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2821\">Renato Moicano replaced him on short notice and was defeated in the first round by the Dagestani champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arman Tsarukyan quickly responded on social media after Ilia Topuria\u2019s swift win over Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC 317. Ilia Topuria had already excited fans ahead of his bout. The \u201cMatador\u201d became the youngest double champion in the organization\u2019s history with a first-round knockout victory over Charles Oliveira. The Spanish fighter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,21,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-ufc-news","10":"category-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}