Exactly one year ago on May 2, 2025, Arman Tsarukyan competed at a Karate Combat event against Makkasharip Zainukov. Since that date, he has competed 9 additional times across various rule sets including grappling, submission-only, and freestyle wrestling, not counting MMA, across four different promotions. Only 4 of his 10 non-MMA matches went to decision, with notable submission victories over opponents including Mehdi, Freire, and Henderson. The RAF league has grown alongside Tsarukyan and now wants him at every event, with two matches already scheduled just two weeks apart. His social media presence has also exploded, doubling his subscriber count, launching a Telegram channel that grew to over 100K subscribers, and producing vlogs that have accumulated over 5 million views total, with daily short videos reaching several million views each.
