{"id":40642,"date":"2026-09-22T04:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Demetrious-Johnson-spots-his-lesson-in-Arman-Tsarukyans-UFC-331-KO-202905"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:31:56","slug":"demetrious-johnson-spots-his-lesson-in-arman-tsarukyans-ufc-331-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/demetrious-johnson-spots-his-lesson-in-arman-tsarukyans-ufc-331-ko\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrious Johnson spots his lesson in Arman Tsarukyan&#8217;s UFC 331 KO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/demetrious-johnson-spots-his-lesson-in-arman-tsarukyans-ufc-331-ko.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Demetrious-Johnson-45452\">Demetrious<br \/>\nJohnson<\/a> claims <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Arman-Tsarukyan-213913\">Arman<br \/>\nTsarukyan<\/a> put a lesson from their training session together to<br \/>\ngood use in his recent bout.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarukyan further bolstered his case for a title shot in the<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-331-Van-vs-Pantoja-113633\">UFC<br \/>\n331<\/a>, knocking out <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mauricio-Ruffy-192545\">Mauricio<br \/>\nRuffy<\/a> with an elbow at 4:56 of the opening round. The technique<br \/>\nhe used to deliver the knockout was among the positions he worked<br \/>\non alongside Johnson when they trained together.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Arman Tsarukyan put Demetrious Johnson&#8217;s clinch advice to use<br \/>\nagainst Mauricio Ruffy<\/h2>\n<p>Johnson broke down the finish and highlighted Tsarukyan\u2019s decision<br \/>\nto remain aggressive in close range rather than immediately looking<br \/>\nfor another takedown when he had Ruffy up against the Octagon<br \/>\nwall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, instead of just wrestling here, like I said, you don\u2019t have<br \/>\nto wrestle here,\u201d Johnson said in a video posted to his YouTube<br \/>\nchannel. \u201cLook, he\u2019s already here. That\u2019s one of the things I<br \/>\nshowed him. Usually people want to wrestle here, but I told him,<br \/>\n\u2018You don\u2019t have to wrestle.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The UFC Hall of Famer also backed Tsarukyan for a title shot<br \/>\nagainst lightweight champ <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Justin-Gaethje-46648\">Justin<br \/>\nGaethje<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are things that he\u2019s going to need when he takes on Justin<br \/>\nGaethje, because Justin can push the pace,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHe can<br \/>\ndo a lot of damage. He can wrestle, too. This is the fight that<br \/>\nneeds to happen. We don\u2019t need to worry about <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ilia-Topuria-202445\">Ilia<br \/>\nTopuria<\/a>. This man is owed a title shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"4.9244186046512\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.53488372093\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc10\ud83e\udde0 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Demetrious-Johnson-45452\">Demetrious<br \/>\nJohnson<\/a> teaching Arman some clinch work.<\/p>\n<p>Mighty emphasized that Arman needs to move away from a<br \/>\nwrestling-heavy approach to MMA:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re holding him, but in MMA, it\u2019s better to strip his hand off<br \/>\nyou, land a left hook to the body, a right straight to the<br \/>\nhead.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Home_of_Fight\/status\/2101742912740499499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nSeptember 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGHx-iLNlo4?si=baGptXrf2vsDm_RL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demetrious Johnson claims Arman Tsarukyan put a lesson from their training session together to good use in his recent bout. Tsarukyan further bolstered his case for a title shot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship at UFC 331, knocking out Mauricio Ruffy with an elbow at 4:56 of the opening round. The technique he used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40642","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\/40642","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=40642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}