Tsarukyan is confident he can get even with Makhachev for his loss on points in April 2019.
"If Porier had won the fifth round, he would have won this fight. Islam would not have been given the win in the United States. Islam won three rounds, from the third round I was already getting worried about him, it seemed that if it went like that and Porier won the fight I would be left without a title chance.
Everybody overestimates Islam, they put him on such a level that he's a superfighter and so on. I know I can beat him. I just need a fight, I need to show myself," MMA Mania quoted Tsarukyan as saying.
Watch this story:
Puryear predicted the winners of the UFC 308 main event fights