Islam Makhachev, the current UFC lightweight champion, shared his opinion on the promotion's top lightweight Arman Tsarukyan.
"Of course, Arman deserves a title fight. He has beaten everyone in the lightweight division. But ...
"Of course Arman deserves a title fight. He has beaten everyone in the lightweight division. But our fight will follow the same scenario as the first one. Arman doesn't have a single advantage over me. Not in wrestling, not in striking. He'll be UFC champion one day when I'm done with my career. Maybe. But now we are at different levels," Makhachev said in an interview with Weighing In.
We will remind, in the first fight Makhachev won Tsarukyan by unanimous decision of judges.
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