Arman Tsarukyan reacts to losing title shot: | MMA News

Arman Tsarukyan reacts to losing title shot: | MMA News

Arman Tsarukyan often is the No. 1 ranked light-weight contender however he is going to have to work his means back to a title shot.  

Tsarukyan was scheduled to face champion Islam Makhachev within the UFC 311 foremost occasion final Saturday however pulled out of the struggle the day earlier than the occasion due to a back damage.  His withdrawal pressured a shakeup to the struggle card leading to Renato Moicano stepping in to tackle Makhachev and Moicano’s authentic opponent, Beneil Dariush, being faraway from the struggle card altogether.  

Tsarukyan defined what occurred that pressured him out of UFC 311 during an look on The Ariel Helwani Show.  “Everything was good but like Wednesday after training I went to sleep and I started to feel my lower back.  I couldn’t sleep all night and I felt something happened. I took some pain killers and they didn’t help, but the next day I felt like it’s going to be good, after the press conference I’m going to start my weight cut,” Tsarukyan stated.  

“When I started my weight cut I was doing bike and like that moment my back like stuck and I couldn’t move.  I couldn’t move.  I just laid down,” Tsarukyan defined.  “It was crazy pain.  I couldn’t do cardio.  And then the UFC doctor came and started to help me, do some PT and they said, ‘You’re going to be alright in the morning.  If you’re going to feel the same, you can’t continue cutting weight.’  I was like six pounds left when I went to sleep.  The pain was the same and at like 5 a.m. I said [to] my manager, ‘It’s the same pain.’  I couldn’t move.  My lower back was stuck and I can not continue.”   

During the UFC 311 Post-Fight Press Conference, UFC CEO Dana White revealed that Tsarukyan is not going to be getting the subsequent title shot. “He’s not getting a title shot,” White stated. “That means he’s going to have to fight his way back to the title.”

“I’m not surprised (White said that).  When you have a big fight and you miss your opportunity, you have to go back and fight with anybody to deserve again to be the No. 1 contender,” Tsarukyan stated in response to White’s feedback.  

“Right now, I beat Charles Oliveira.  He’s No. 2.  I don’t know.  If it makes sense, I’ll fight with anybody.”      

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