Valuetainment - April 29, 2026


“I’ll Fight For USA” - Arman Tsarukyan CALLS OUT UFC Over White House Snub


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Length

5 minutes

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182.0119

Word count

968

Sentence count

68


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In this episode, we have a special guest on the show who is a backup for the UFC in the welterweight division. We talk about his future in the UFC and what he's looking forward to in the future.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What is next for you?
00:00:01.300 Because there's a lot of people that want to see you.
00:00:03.380 You're not on the White House card.
00:00:05.300 I thought you were going to be on the White House card.
00:00:07.020 I thought the big fight would have been, you know, a lot of names with you being included in it.
00:00:12.200 What's the next big one for you?
00:00:14.640 I'm a backup for the White House.
00:00:16.500 So, manuant in my weight.
00:00:17.740 You are?
00:00:18.260 Yeah.
00:00:18.580 So, if something happened on the manuant, if someone pull out or...
00:00:23.140 Is this public information?
00:00:24.740 It's not public, but you still tell me if someone like...
00:00:27.920 Oh, buddy, don't say that.
00:00:29.680 Are you serious?
00:00:30.720 Yeah, if someone pull out, but they got to get injured.
00:00:33.080 That's awesome.
00:00:34.280 Well, I mean, there's a big one if a guy pulls out.
00:00:37.440 Yeah, so that's why I'm flying out tomorrow back to Cali and training.
00:00:43.400 Wait, if accidentally Gagey or Taporia pulls out, you're in.
00:00:50.080 Yeah, 100%.
00:00:51.220 Oh, my God.
00:00:52.580 Yeah.
00:00:53.940 Yeah, that's the goal.
00:00:56.040 So we never know.
00:00:57.560 It's a dangerous sport.
00:00:59.300 But these guys, they train so – they don't train hard, so lower chance.
00:01:07.700 Lower chance of them?
00:01:08.740 Yeah.
00:01:09.360 So meaning the chance of them getting injured is not high.
00:01:11.740 They're probably going to keep the fight.
00:01:12.680 Yeah, it's not high because they're both – Tapura is just hitting pads.
00:01:17.080 He doesn't do anything else.
00:01:19.240 Gigi, he's super old.
00:01:21.160 He just maybe like playing.
00:01:22.880 He doesn't want to have a strong sparring because it's not good for him right now.
00:01:30.280 Well, for me, the challenge is I don't know if Dana would be good with Justin dropping out
00:01:40.420 because it's a USA flag and it's 250.
00:01:44.660 It's okay.
00:01:45.300 I'll fight for USA.
00:01:46.980 I'll fight for USA.
00:01:48.640 And for sure, for sure, they're going to be proud more than for Gigi.
00:01:54.180 I'm going to show a better fight than Gigi.
00:01:56.400 If you and Toporio.
00:01:57.700 Yeah, 100%.
00:01:58.240 I think the world wants to see that.
00:01:59.960 Yeah, everybody's waiting for that fight.
00:02:02.300 So, but if it's not happened now, it's going to, eventually, it's going to happen.
00:02:07.820 Right.
00:02:08.140 And I take my time.
00:02:09.800 I learn something new.
00:02:10.880 I'm getting better every day.
00:02:12.760 I'm not like, oh, why it doesn't happen like it didn't happen in January?
00:02:17.360 why they didn't put I'm not mad I'm just waiting for my chance and did they call you at all for
00:02:22.660 this fight or no for this card were you at all yes I uh they called me for the you see Chandler
00:02:29.140 Ruffy and Chandler they wanted me put against the Chandler and then they understood like
00:02:34.460 it's bad bad for Chandler and he represent us it's like 99.9 that I'm beating him so
00:02:42.220 and then they put roofie so if someone had hurt in roofie or chandler they might call me too so
00:02:49.420 oh so either one of them they might call you yeah yeah but ideal fight for you there's two
00:02:55.320 yeah you want the title fight yeah i want a title yeah so and and for you you in your mind you told
00:03:01.480 the story at the beginning you said you went and fought your first guy you lost you went to thailand
00:03:07.120 you trained for a year then you came back and you beat the other guy and you uh i think submission
00:03:11.860 you said right that you did yeah to the guy is that story gonna repeat itself with islam when
00:03:17.700 you go back and face him off is that kind of how you see that story taking place right now no because
00:03:23.140 i'm i'm thinking about that title fight in my weight 155 he moved up right yeah he moved up
00:03:30.420 yeah but if he stay long long in this in this game yeah i would like to go up and fight him but
00:03:37.060 Right now my goal is to get the title fight in 155 probably.
00:03:42.120 So there is probably in this summer and the end of this summer
00:03:45.440 or they give me BMF title in June 11.
00:03:49.660 Oh, dude, you're so qualified for a BMF type of a...
00:03:52.380 Yeah, so either BMF July or title fight
00:03:59.220 and the end of this summer or September, October.
00:04:02.280 Tuporia.
00:04:02.920 Yeah.
00:04:03.840 Yeah.
00:04:04.840 Well, I mean, listen, I love Justin, of course.
00:04:08.400 He's a fan favorite.
00:04:09.540 He was at the UFC in Miami when we were here just last week.
00:04:12.980 And when the audience sees him, he's got a big fan base,
00:04:15.480 but he's at a different age, 37.
00:04:18.660 Teporius, how old right now?
00:04:19.880 Is he 30?
00:04:20.580 Is he 29 or 30?
00:04:22.260 29.
00:04:22.860 29.
00:04:23.380 So he's 29 and you're 29.
00:04:25.700 Yeah.
00:04:26.260 What a perfect matchup.
00:04:29.220 I mean, if that's the main, if you guys end up, well,
00:04:32.940 something needs to happen last minute for that to be the fight um but that'd be a big one you
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