{"id":40956,"date":"2026-10-09T04:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Tsarukyan-vs-Gracie-Zabit-vs-Chikadze-join-RAF-Abu-Dhabi-card-203145"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:34:45","slug":"tsarukyan-vs-gracie-zabit-vs-chikadze-join-raf-abu-dhabi-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/tsarukyan-vs-gracie-zabit-vs-chikadze-join-raf-abu-dhabi-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsarukyan vs. Gracie, Zabit vs. Chikadze join RAF Abu Dhabi card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Real American Freestyle has announced five additional matchups for
\nits first Abu Dhabi event, scheduled for Nov. 14 at Etihad Arena on
\nYas Island.<\/p>\n

Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> will face Neiman
\nGracie<\/a> in a catchweight crossover bout, while Kyle Dake and
\nKennedy Blades will defend their RAF titles against Alp Arslan
\nBegenjov and Bella Mir<\/a>,
\nrespectively.<\/p>\n

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Arman Tsarukyan faces Neiman Gracie as Zabit Magomedsharipov
\nmeets Giga Chikadze under freestyle wrestling rules<\/h2>\n

Tsarukyan (24-3), one of the top contenders in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> lightweight division, will meet
\nGracie under freestyle wrestling rules. He has become a regular on
\nthe RAF circuit while remaining active in mixed martial arts.
\nGracie (13-6), a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, previously
\ncompeted in Bellator<\/a>
\nand the
\nProfessional Fighters League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dake will defend his RAF cruiserweight title against Begenjov,
\nwhile Blades will defend her women\u2019s middleweight title against
\nMir. The card will also feature former UFC featherweight Zabit
\nMagomedsharipov<\/a> against Giga
\nChikadze<\/a> in a welterweight crossover matchup.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the card, Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs will
\nmeet Belarusian wrestler Azamat Nurykau at middleweight. The pair
\npreviously met at the 2019 world championships, where Burroughs won
\n11-10.<\/p>\n

RAF Abu Dhabi will be headlined by Khamzat
\nChimaev<\/a> vs. Colby
\nCovington<\/a> for the promotion\u2019s cruiserweight crossover title.
\nThe event marks the start of a five-year partnership between RAF,
\nthe Department of Culture and Tourism \u2013 Abu Dhabi and the UAE
\nWrestling Federation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real American Freestyle has announced five additional matchups for its first Abu Dhabi event, scheduled for Nov. 14 at Etihad Arena on Yas Island. Arman Tsarukyan will face Neiman Gracie in a catchweight crossover bout, while Kyle Dake and Kennedy Blades will defend their RAF titles against Alp Arslan Begenjov and Bella Mir, respectively. Advertisement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40956","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\/40956","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=40956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}