{"id":41370,"date":"2026-10-28T21:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Arman-Tsarukyan-vs-Anthony-Pettis-to-headline-RAF-15-title-match-203398"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:21:48","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-vs-anthony-pettis-to-headline-raf-15-title-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/arman-tsarukyan-vs-anthony-pettis-to-headline-raf-15-title-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan vs. Anthony Pettis to headline RAF 15 title match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> will defend his middleweight crossover title against
\nformer
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> lightweight champion Anthony
\nPettis<\/a> in the RAF 15 main event on Nov. 28 at NOW Arena in
\nHoffman Estates, Illinois.<\/p>\n

The matchup replaces the previously announced headliner between
\nHenry
\nCejudo<\/a> and Yadong
\nSong<\/a>, whose lightweight crossover title match moves to the
\nco-main event. Real American Freestyle announced the change on
\nX.<\/p>\n

\n

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

Arman Tsarukyan defends his RAF wrestling title against Anthony
\nPettis as Henry Cejudo vs. Yadong Song moves to co-main event<\/h2>\n

Tsarukyan captured the vacant middleweight crossover title by
\ndefeating Dillon
\nDanis<\/a> via technical fall at RAF 14 on Oct. 23. The UFC
\nlightweight contender is also scheduled to face Neiman
\nGracie<\/a> in a non-title match at RAF Abu Dhabi on Nov. 14, giving
\nhim two wrestling assignments in November.<\/p>\n

Pettis was initially scheduled to face fellow former UFC fighter
\nDonald
\nCerrone<\/a> before being moved into the title match against
\nTsarukyan. His most recent combat sports appearance was a unanimous
\ndecision loss to Chris Avila<\/a>
\nin a boxing match in July 2024.<\/p>\n

Cejudo and Song remain among the featured competitors on the
\nupdated lineup.<\/p>\n

RAF 15 lineup<\/h2>\n

Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a> vs. Anthony
\nPettis<\/a> \u2014 middleweight crossover title
Henry
\nCejudo<\/a> vs. Yadong Song<\/a>
\n\u2014 lightweight crossover title
Cayden Henschel vs. Conor Beebe \u2014 featherweight crossover title
Clay
\nGuida<\/a> vs. Raul Rosas
\nJr.<\/a>
Roman Bravo-Young vs. Matt Ramos
Haley Augello vs. Miranda
\nMaverick<\/a>
Danny
\nSabatello<\/a> vs. Jacob Schultz
Cody
\nGarbrandt<\/a> vs. Sergio
\nPettis<\/a>
Real Woods vs. Sebastian
\nRivera<\/a>
Yonger Bastida vs. Geno Petriashvili <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arman Tsarukyan will defend his middleweight crossover title against former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in the RAF 15 main event on Nov. 28 at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The matchup replaces the previously announced headliner between Henry Cejudo and Yadong Song, whose lightweight crossover title match moves to the co-main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41370","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\/41370","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=41370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}