Arman Tsarukyan has put in the work unlike ever before going into his first opportunity at gold on Saturday in the UFC 311 headliner.
Tsarukyan (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) is set to rematch lightweight champion Islam Makhachev (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) in the main event at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPNews, ESPN+), and it’s a moment he’s been waiting years to materialize.
The matchup was originally targeted to take place this past October in Abu Dhabi, but Makhachev needed additional time to recover from a hand injury. Tsarukyan, however, has spent all that time methodically training at American Top Team in Florida and elsewhere.
