Tsarukyan confirmed that he twice refused a rematch with Makhachev

Alexandr Ormanji July 15, 2024, 7:25 a.m.

Arman Tsarukyan, the UFC's top lightweight, admitted that he turned down a rematch with Islam Makhachev twice.

"There was one time. I was supposed to fight Alvarez, four or five days before the fight. I get a call saying Dariusz got off and got injured. They ask, "Do you want to fight Islam?" I say no, because I've been training under the fighter I'm going to attack the fight against. Plus he's right-handed and Islam is left-handed.

I realized that I wanted a full camp in front of Makhachev. I was offered this fight seven weeks in advance, but I turned it down, what to speak of on three days notice? There were no more such offers."

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