A grappling contest between Arman Tsarukyan and Tom Hardy was loosely mentioned with the previous bearing on simply how shut that obtained to transpiring. The surging UFC light-weight contender mentioned this not too long ago with Helen Yee Sports activities across the time of his latest effort with Actual American Freestyle as Tsarukyan bested Lance Palmer by way of tech fall at RAF 05 with a rating of 10-0.
Tsaruykan has been lively on the submission grappling circuit as of late and has additionally grappled underneath the Hype Preventing banner towards the likes of UFC middleweight Shara Bullet. A proposal was prolonged to Hardy to grapple Tsarukyan underneath the Hype banner final December however issues associated to the Hollywood star’s schedule obtained in the way in which. Expressing his facet of why this intriguing showdown with Hardy by no means passed off, Tsarukyan mentioned,
“Yeah, I obtained that provide, however he [Tom Hardy] couldn’t come as a result of he was filming one thing. I don’t know, he’s filming, he’s busy. So it didn’t occur, however perhaps sooner or later – why not? I’m down for everyone, for large names.”
Arman Tsarukyan calls out former UFC title challenger for wrestling contest
Arman Tsarukyan has been actively plying his commerce as a wrestler and appears to wish to maintain his momentum recently going towards one other UFC contracted fighter who concurrently competes for RAF. This referenced competitor is Michael Chandler who Tsarukyan not too long ago put in his crosshairs after his aforementioned win towards Palmer from over the weekend.
Tsarukyan talked about Chandler making some RAF callouts and talked about his keenness to wrestle the previous multi-time Bellator MMA champion. Arman Tsarukyan additionally talked about Chandler’s wrestling particular pedigree whereas the previous referenced his base as being that of an MMA fighter who occurs to pursue lots of grappling-centric alternatives.
Punctuating the callout, Tsarukyan talked about that Chandler would have zero probability towards him in MMA so perhaps a contest underneath the RAF banner could possibly be a greater match for Chandler per Tsarukyan’s trash speaking. Placing some extra potential choices on the market, Tsarukyan acknowledged [viaMMA Junkie],
I want to wrestle with Kyle Dake, as effectively. It’s good for me as a result of he’s world champion, [bronze] Olympic [medalist]. He’s an actual title. Subsequent one I want to have an MMA fighter, who has a background in wrestling, get extra expertise, after which wrestle with the true wrestlers as a result of we’re nonetheless not on the identical degree. You may’t examine an MMA fighter to a freestyle wrestler.”
