Arman Tsarukyan predicts UFC 326 main event between Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira

Arman Tsarukyan is looking forward to seeing Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira collide at UFC 326, and he even has a prediction.

Holloway and Oliveira are scheduled to collide on March 7 inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Blessed” will put his BMF Championship at stake. This will actually be a rematch, as Holloway and Oliveira had a 2015 fight that ended prematurely due to an injury.

MMA DropZone captured footage of a video posted on Tsarukyan’s Telegram account. In the clip, “Ahalkalakets” revealed that he’s leaning towards Oliveira to pull off the victory over Holloway (via MMAJunkie).

“Oliveira sometimes fights so bad, but sometimes he is unreal,” Tsarukyan said. “You never know with him, but I still lean towards Oliveira winning.”

Tsarukyan then expressed interest in having a rematch against Oliveira. He wants to show MMA fans that he is undoubtedly the better lightweight by securing a finish if another bout with the Brazilian legend takes place.

“I hope Oliveira wins,” Tsarukyan said. “We have a history. We can rematch. People say I won via split decision. I think I won convincingly. I won all rounds. I need to finish him and show people that my victory wasn’t an accident. Even two years ago, I was a level above him.”

Tsarukyan awaits to see what’s in store for him after submitting Dan Hooker at UFC Qatar. While Tsarukyan is widely considered to be deserving of lightweight title fight, he’ll have to wait until champion Ilia Topuria and interim titleholder Justin Gaethje have their inevitable unification bout.

Even then, there’s no telling just how long the UFC brass will continue to keep Tsarukyan out of the lightweight title picture.

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