Arman Tsarukyan has been able to capitalize during a frustrating time in his career.
Sean O’Malley recently highlighted Tsarukyan’s growing popularity, which has largely come without him fighting inside the Octagon.
He has, however, been incredibly active in other aspects, with Tsarukyan booking another grappling match yesterday just days after his last one.
A post from the lightweight contender on social media about the upcoming UFC event at the White House is proof that there is a huge demand to see him compete right now.
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Arman Tsarukyan’s April Fool’s post draws more likes than UFC White House card announcement
The official announcement that Ilia Topuria will face Justin Gaethje in the main event of the UFC White House card only confirmed that Arman Tsarukyan will have to wait even longer for his shot.
Doing a lot of interviews after his actions prevented him from fighting for the belt could have gone down badly with the fans, but it’s had the opposite effect.
He has continued to show people how good he is by completing side quests while winning them over with his personality.
On April Fool’s Day, Tsarukyan said he’d be fighting Topuria on June 14 instead, with his Instagram post racking up 817,000 likes within a day.
In comparison, the UFC’s first post on their Instagram page that revealed the six-fight line-up for the ‘Freedom 250’ card has 730,000 likes.
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This post was shared 26 days ago (March 7) to an account that has over ten times the number of followers as Tsarukyan does (Tsarukyan has 4.7 million Instagram followers compared to UFC’s 49.8 million), not to mention that the likes of Paramount+ were a collaborator on the post.
That being said, it should be noted the UFC account did share a second post about the UFC White House card that also went up on March 7.
This showed the individual graphics for the six fights instead of them being listed in one image, which has generated one million likes instead.
Still, it’s clear that there is a lot of support behind Tsarukyan fighting for the belt, even if some are still unsure whether he can be trusted with this opportunity.
2026-04-02 21:00:00
