{"id":38605,"date":"2026-06-02T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ben-Askren-shares-prediction-for-Arman-Tsarukyan-vs-Colby-Covington-at-RAF-201408"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:25:47","slug":"ben-askren-shares-prediction-for-arman-tsarukyan-vs-colby-covington-at-raf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ben-askren-shares-prediction-for-arman-tsarukyan-vs-colby-covington-at-raf\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Askren shares prediction for Arman Tsarukyan vs. Colby Covington at RAF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ben
\nAskren<\/a> has an interesting take on the upcoming wrestling match
\nbetween Colby
\nCovington<\/a> and Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Covington (17-5) and Tsarukyan (23-3) will headline RAF 11 on July
\n18 at the UWM Panther Arena in Milwaukee. While Tsarukyan is
\nconsidered to be in his prime, Askren believes Covington will give
\nhim a close contest. Askren notes that Tsarukyan will be going up
\nin weight against Covington, who has wrestled at even heavier
\nweight classes before. Regardless, Askren believes Tsarukyan will
\nedge out Covington by a single point.<\/p>\n

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Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A Tough Call<\/h2>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s interesting because Arman is going up in weight,\u201d Askren said
\non “The Ariel Helwani Show.”<\/a> \u201cI believe they\u2019re
\nwrestling at 185 [pounds], while Colby has wrestled a couple of his
\nmatches at 200 pounds\u2026 Colby’s clearly the larger person. I don’t
\nknow. I’m very split on it. I think it’s kind of a coin flip. Colby
\n\u2013 Weidman was a fun one\u2026 Arman did have some close matches against
\nGeorgio Poullas, who was an all right college wrestler, I guess
\nwe’ll say. I don’t really know what to expect. I think it’s gonna
\nbe competitive. I’ll go with Arman by a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Covington last fight in the
\nUFC<\/a> was in 2024, he only recently parted ways with the
\npromotion to fully dedicate himself to RAF. Meanwhile, Tsarukyan
\nhas been active at RAF as he awaits a UFC lightweight title shot.
\nCovington and Tsarukyan are both undefeated at RAF. Covington has
\ndefeated Luke
\nRockhold<\/a>, Dillon
\nDanis<\/a>, and Chris
\nWeidman<\/a>. Meanwhile, Tsarukyan has defeated Georgio Poullas
\ntwice, and Lance
\nPalmer<\/a>, Keelon
\nJimison<\/a> aka \u201cMugzy,\u201d and Urijah
\nFaber<\/a>. Tsarukyan predicts that he will beat Covington 10-0 at
\nRAF 11. <\/p>\n

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\n

Ben Askren<\/a>
\nbreaks down Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> x Colby
\nCovington<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Colby’s clearly the larger person. I don’t know. I’m very split on
\nit. I think it’s kind of a coin flip.<\/p>\n

Colby x Weidman was a fun one. Arman did have some close matches
\nagainst Georgio Poullas, who was a college\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/H0UcndnwLC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani)
\nJune 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ben Askren has an interesting take on the upcoming wrestling match between Colby Covington and Arman Tsarukyan.  Covington (17-5) and Tsarukyan (23-3) will headline RAF 11 on July 18 at the UWM Panther Arena in Milwaukee. While Tsarukyan is considered to be in his prime, Askren believes Covington will give him a close contest. Askren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38605","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\/38605","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=38605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}