Tsarukyan: "Makhachev wants to avoid our fight"

Dmitriy Kel March 16, 2024, 1:51 p.m.

UFC top lightweight Arman Tsarukyan commented on the desire of the division's champion Islam Makhachev to make a belt defense against Dustin Puryear.

"I think Makhachev wants to avoid our fight. He feels that I will beat him. It's better for Islam to fight Porye than me because I'm more dangerous, I'm good at wrestling.

Maybe Islam wants to make more money by fighting Puryear, so he's interested. But for now it doesn't matter - I'm focused on the fight against Oliveira, because this is one of the most dangerous fighters in the division," Tsarukyan said in an interview with Morning Kombat.

Watch this story: Rockhold called Cormier a liar

Recall that Makhachev and Tsarukyan have already met in the octagon. Their first fight took place in 2019 and ended with Islam's victory by unanimous decision of the judges.

UFC on ESPN 63: Buckley beats Covington and other tournament results

Here are the results of the UFC on ESPN 63 tournament, which took place on ...

UFC On ESPN 63. Colby vs. Buckley: watch online, streaming links

UFC On ESPN 63 will take place in Tampa on the night of December 15, ...

Participants of the UFC on ESPN 63 tournament have passed the weigh-in

Here are the results of weigh-ins for UFC on ESPN 63, which will take place ...

UFC 310: Pantoja finishes Asakura and other tournament results

Here are the results of UFC 310, which took place on the night of December ...

A rematch between Du Plessis and Strickland will headline UFC 312 in Australia

UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis and former belt holder Shawn Strickland will rematch ...

UFC 310 tournament participants have been through weigh-ins

Las Vegas hosted the official weigh-in procedure for UFC 310, which will take place at ...

Comments

var _paq = window._paq = window._paq || []; _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u="//mm.magnet.kiev.ua/"; _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']); _paq.push(['setSiteId', '1']); var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.async=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); })();