Arman Tsarukyan marks one year of unprecedented cross-discipline activity

Exactly one year ago, Arman Tsarukyan began an extraordinary competitive streak beyond MMA. On May 2, 2025, he competed at Karate Combat against Mackasharip Zaynukov, which initially seemed like a one-time appearance. Since then, Tsarukyan has competed nine additional times under various rulesets including grappling, submission-only, and freestyle wrestling across four different promotions, not including his MMA bouts. Only four of his ten non-MMA matches went to decision, with notable submission victories over opponents including Mehdi, Freire, and Henderson. His social media presence has exploded, with his subscriber count doubling, a Telegram channel growing from zero to over 100,000 followers, vlogs accumulating more than 5 million total views, and daily short videos reaching several million views each. The RAF league has flourished alongside his participation and now wants him at every event, already scheduling him for two fights two weeks apart.