Michael Bisping: BMF champ can leapfrog Arman Tsarukyan for title shot
Michael Bisping thinks Arman Tsarukyan‘s highway to gold might find yourself being even longer.
Tsarukyan (23-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) has been pushed other than the light-weight title image after withdrawing from his combat in opposition to Islam Makhachev at UFC 311, then head butting opponent Dan Hooker throughout the UFC Fight Night 265 weigh-in faceoff.
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interim champion Justin Gaethje is anticipated to be unify his belt with light-weight champion Ilia Topuriahowever Bisping sees two different contenders in play. When Max Holloway (27-8 MMA, 23-8 UFC) defends his BMF title in opposition to Charles Oliveira (36-11 MMA, 24-11 UFC) within the UFC 326 headliner on March 7, Bisping thinks the winner might be subsequent.
“Will they leapfrog Arman Tsarukyan?” Bisping stated on his YouTube channels. “Arman Tsarukyan, as we know, is out there, he’s talking, he’s pissed off, he’s the rightful No. 1 contender, and all the rest of it. He’s not. There’s an interim champion. That fight needs to happen. But if Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway go out there and do something crazy, if we get Charles Oliveira finishing Max Holloway in sensational fashion, jumping over the octagon, running into the crowd like Jose Aldo in Rio de Janeiro, or like Charles Oliveira last time, in October in Rio de Janeiro?
“If one thing like that occurs and the followers need it, guess what? Ilia Topuria or Justin Gaethje, they’d welcome it. Being the BMF champ as effectively, there could be a possible that you’d have the undisputed belt and the BMF belt each on the road in the identical combat. Would that gazump Arman Tsarukyan? I do not know.”
Tsarukyan referred to as out Topuria after running through Dan Hooker this previous November, and he has since been protecting himself busy by collaborating in quite a few grappling matches. He meets Georgio Poullas within the RAF 6 co-main occasion, which takes place Saturday at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz.
This article initially appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC analyst: Tsarukyan can be leapfrogged by Holloway-Oliveira winner
