Tsarukyan explained why he talked about knocking out Makhachev in the first round

Top UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan explained why he said that in a rematch he would knock out the current champion of the organization in this weight in the first round Islam Makhacheva.

“Of course, there is confidence. But you still need to say things, attract attention, so that people talk about this fight: about him and about me. I’m doing this so that they will give me this fight. If I didn’t say anything, no one would give me anything. And they wouldn’t have given me Charles Oliveira if I had sat and remained silent. And the main fights of the evening would not have been given to me if I had not said all sorts of nonsense, as they like,” Tsarukyan said.