{"id":40666,"date":"2026-09-23T04:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ruffy-stopped-Tsarukyans-takedowns-then-Arman-found-another-way-202921"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:10:01","slug":"ruffy-stopped-tsarukyans-takedowns-then-arman-found-another-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ruffy-stopped-tsarukyans-takedowns-then-arman-found-another-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruffy stopped Tsarukyan\u2019s takedowns; then Arman found another way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mauricio
\nRuffy<\/a> showcased improved takedown defense against Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a>, but didn\u2019t anticipate the fight-ending blow at the
\nend of the first round.<\/p>\n

Tsarukyan stopped Ruffy with an elbow at 4:56 of the opening round
\non Sept. 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The result
\nstrengthened Tsarukyan\u2019s position in the lightweight title picture,
\nwhile Ruffy suffered his second loss in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>. Pedro Rizzo<\/a>
\nand Renato
\n\u201cMoney\u201d Moicano<\/a> recently reflected on the fight.<\/p>\n

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Mauricio Ruffy frustrated Arman Tsarukyan\u2019s wrestling before
\nthe clinch attack produced the finish<\/h2>\n

Former UFC heavyweight title challenger Rizzo praised Ruffy\u2019s
\nability to thwart Tsarukyan\u2019s wrestling before highlighting how the
\nlatter\u2019s adjustment ultimately made the difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you start worrying too much about defense, you become too
\ndefensive and stop attacking,\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cYou have to give their
\nstrategy credit. That combination of the clinch and the elbow
\ncaught Ruffy by surprise. He had already taken two [elbows]. He
\nshould have realized that when they broke from the clinch,
\nTsarukyan was throwing a punch or an elbow. But it\u2019s important to
\nsay that it\u2019s easy to talk from the couch. Things happen very
\nquickly there. It\u2019s difficult to recognize that during the first
\nround of a fight. So I prefer to say it was a credit to Tsarukyan
\nand his team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moicano, who trains at
\nAmerican Top Team<\/a> alongside Tsarukyan, offered a similar
\nassessment of the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Ruffy started letting his hands go and frustrating Arman\u2019s
\ntakedowns, he got desperate,\u201d Moicano said. \u201cI started seeing
\nTsarukyan\u2019s eye swelling up. But Arman, besides being versatile on
\nthe feet and having great cardio, is very aggressive. He kept his
\ncomposure and started using feints until he got into the clinch and
\nbegan attacking with elbows, and one of them ended the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moicano was slated to fight on the same card as Tsarukyan vs.
\nRuffy, but his opponent, Brian
\nOrtega<\/a>, withdrew from the matchup after sustaining a cut above
\nhis eye. Moicano is now booked to face Tom Nolan<\/a>
\nlater this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mauricio Ruffy showcased improved takedown defense against Arman Tsarukyan, but didn\u2019t anticipate the fight-ending blow at the end of the first round. Tsarukyan stopped Ruffy with an elbow at 4:56 of the opening round on Sept. 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The result strengthened Tsarukyan\u2019s position in the lightweight title picture, while Ruffy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40666","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\/40666","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=40666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}