Arman Tsarukyan previews his UFC Fight Night clash with Beneil Dariush

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00:00 I'm a welcome to Austin a big fight you know this is one of the big names that

00:19 you've been calling for for a long time I'm curious how exciting is it to finally

00:23 get a shot at someone like Benioff yes finally I got big fight and so excited

00:30 can't wait to fight what exactly you expecting from him he's a good guy all

00:34 around you know he can grapple he can strike but what are you expecting him to

00:37 try and do against you on fight night he's a well-rounded fighter I think he's

00:44 he's gonna wait what I'm gonna do and like check it out what's my game plan

00:49 gonna be and try to defend my wrestling and like strike me and never know I

00:56 think like he wants to try to take me down - he's the kind of guy that

01:01 everyone knows how good he is right so if you go out there and you beat him

01:05 very like impressively does that you think make you automatically fight for

01:09 the title next thing so if I finish him I can talk about title fight you know is

01:19 there a chance you might have to wait a little bit because they have Charles

01:22 they have Justin or do you think maybe you could try and get that fight with

01:25 Gaichi or maybe get a fight with Charles and take one of those guys out sure for

01:29 me doesn't matter I just looking for a victory this weekend and after that if

01:34 they want to tell me you need three more fights I'm gonna three fights three more

01:38 times and then get the title fight but just my goal is fight next year for the

01:44 title do you feel like this is the fight that I think everyone who watches this

01:48 sport knows how good you are but is this the fight that puts you on the map and

01:52 puts you at one of the top five in this division going forward sure it's a big

01:56 opportunity for me to get in you know elite fighters and from top five to be

02:02 in top five it's a different game you know it's a big names and I know I gotta

02:08 be there and they deserve to be there so

02:13 hopefully after this weekend I'm gonna be in top five and I can talk about big

02:20 fights and about title fight so how does it feel to get out of the apex and

02:32 actually fight in front of a crowd especially a crowd like here in Austin

02:34 where they're gonna be really loud really rowdy especially you know for the

02:38 main event you know I always like to fight with crowd because it's more fun

02:43 so it gives me more energy I'm so excited you know last four fights I

02:53 fought in the apex and it's not bad it's like but still you know this crowd is a

02:58 different game and so I feel like I'm a fighter who got a fight with crowd and

03:09 for you are there any advantages to fighting in the apex like you know like

03:13 hearing your coaches clear or would you just prefer like the more chaotic scene

03:17 of having the crowd react to pretty much all of the big moments of the fight you

03:22 know not about I books I just like Las Vegas because because of you CPI you can

03:28 cut weight they're very easy and I know Las Vegas very well like the where I

03:34 should eat and where should I recover you know and the UFC Performance Institute

03:39 gives a lot of like you know good things for cutting weight for train it's it's

03:46 the best place you know and that's why I like to fight in Vegas but yeah hopefully

03:53 next fight gonna be in Vegas but in Timo Boller in in terms of you know your

04:00 opponent Benil like did you take anything away from him in his last

04:04 outing against Charles I know it was a quick one for him but like did you take

04:07 anything away from his performance that night of course I watched his last fight

04:11 and I saw how he missed punch and how he looked like how he moved so I watched his

04:23 all fights and definitely last fight showed like what it's like happen you

04:31 know you can miss punch and that's it so and I don't underestimate it that he

04:37 lost last his fight and just I'm so motivated and I know he's a dangerous

04:44 fighter and they gotta be focused 25 minutes you know and just be smart and

04:54 I'll win this way you've been uh you know seven out of the last late you've

05:01 been victorious you're taking on you know Darush do you want to put him away

05:05 in spectacular fashion would that kind of avenge the loss of Darush who did

05:10 beat Garma was the question like would you put him in a way in spectacular

05:16 fashion Darush would that kind of avenge your only loss you've had in the last

05:20 eight fights

05:33 yeah so I wanna I wanna I wanna finish him you know I just don't wanna win by

05:44 decision or barely win if I win him barely everybody gonna say this guy is

05:51 not like top fighter and he doesn't deserve to fight with Islam Agachev so

05:57 that's why I just want to go there and like to show everybody I'm the best in

06:03 this game and that I deserve to fight for the title

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