{"id":37012,"date":"2026-03-03T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ben-Askren-Georgio-Poullas-was-afraid-of-being-exposed-against-Arman-Tsarukyan-200322"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:51:05","slug":"ben-askren-georgio-poullas-was-afraid-of-being-exposed-against-arman-tsarukyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ben-askren-georgio-poullas-was-afraid-of-being-exposed-against-arman-tsarukyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren: Georgio Poullas was afraid of being ‘exposed’ against Arman Tsarukyan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/div>\n

Ben
\nAskren<\/a> didn\u2019t mince his words while reacting to Georgio
\nPoullas\u2019 wrestling match against Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Poullas is a former collegiate wrestler who rose to fame by
\noffering random people $1,000 to take him down. Poullas faced
\nTsarukyan, who is considered among the best wrestlers in the
\n
\nUFC<\/a>, in a freestyle wrestling match at RAF 6 last
\nweekend. <\/p>\n

Poullas started slapping Tsarukyan, poking his eyes, and grabbing
\nhis fingers from the beginning of the match. Askren, a former
\nOlympian, expressed his thoughts while watching the match live.
\nAskren thinks Poullas is an average wrestler who was afraid of
\ngetting exposed against Tsarukyan. \u201cFunky\u201d predicted that Poullas\u2019
\nbest chance to win was to make Tsarukyan angry enough to get him
\ndisqualified.<\/p>\n

Average at Best<\/h2>\n

\u201cGeorgio is a very average wrestler,\u201d Askren said. \u201cIf you look at
\nhis college record, it\u2019s not very good. And I think he\u2019s afraid of
\ngetting exposed. And I think his best way to win is to get Arman
\nmad and get him disqualified. That\u2019s what I think his strategy is.
\nThen maybe Georgio could still claim he is a good
\nwrestler.\u201d <\/p>\n

Poullas was penalized on points and also had his fingers taped
\nafter trying to grab Tsarukyan\u2019s fingers. Askren thought Poullas
\nwas trying to get some rest as he tired out quicker because of
\nalleged steroid use. Meanwhile, Chael
\nSonnen<\/a>, who was a part of the commentary team and has been
\ncaught using PEDs, caught a stray from Askren.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he is trying to get a little extra rest right now, because
\nthose steroids don\u2019t help you go for long,\u201d Askren said. \u201c\u2026 Chael
\nknows about this. Chael what do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan managed to maintain his composure until the end of the
\nmatch, which he won by points. \u201cAhalkalakets\u201d then landed a clean
\npunch on Poullas, leading to utter chaos in the entire
\narena. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

Ben Askren<\/a>
\npredicted that Georgio Poullas would try to get Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> disqualified<\/p>\n

\u201cbest way to win is to get Arman mad and get him disqualified\u201d<\/p>\n

via @foxnation<\/a>
\npic.twitter.com\/Pu3yXDCxJi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dovy\ud83d\udd0c (@DovySimuMMA)
\nMarch 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ben Askren didn\u2019t mince his words while reacting to Georgio Poullas\u2019 wrestling match against Arman Tsarukyan.  Poullas is a former collegiate wrestler who rose to fame by offering random people $1,000 to take him down. Poullas faced Tsarukyan, who is considered among the best wrestlers in the UFC, in a freestyle wrestling match at RAF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}