After the victory of Ilia Topuria against Charles Oliveira for the lightweight belt, The Hispanogeorgiano, who has a 17-0 record, does not rest and already seeks what his next victim will be. In that list of possibilities three names come out of the arena: Islam Makhachev, Paddy Pimblett and Arman Tsarukyan. The latter, number 2 of the light weight ranking, was the reservation of the fight between Topuria and Oliveira and is postulated as the favorite to fight for the belt.
The Armenian fighter talked about this possibility in an interview for the YouTube channel of the former UFC, Daniel Cormier. “I'm going to hit him, I'm going to kick him. I saw his first fight and was doing some fight, but he got tired and has never faced fighters like me,”he said.
He has never faced fighters like me … I can say that it is not high level
The rivalry between Topuria and Tsarukyan comes from time ago. “Cagao was seen. A shock face. He said: I was going to be the replacement of this fight, thankfully, God bless Charles, because this was going to be me,” Topuria said in a mockery after seeing the reaction of the Armenian to the Ko to Oliveira. Already in the weighing of combat, Topuria began this 'pique' by throwing a dart affirming that Tsarukyan always gives the weight when he knows that he was not going to fight.
Everything seems to indicate that Topuria will soon find rival to defend the title and Arman, which a priori is the main candidate, wants to start heating the environment from now: “I can say that it is not high level. I will send to Topuria back to the Top 15 of the Libra by Libra”says.
