Arman Tsarukyan vs. Tony Ferguson RAF 10 Press Conference Highlights

[0:08] mike armin welcome back i mean i feel like we say this at every single one of these events but if i [0:13] told you three or four years ago that you'd be competing against tony ferguson and a wrestling [0:18] match or an mma fight or any sort of opportunity would you believe me and what is your reaction to [0:24] getting to compete against tony tomorrow hello everyone i'm here um wake up i mean uh i was [0:39] glad to be here i was like to compete and especially with tony ferguson he's uh when i was young he was [0:47] fighting on the high level you know and he was fighting for the title and when i started my [0:53] career he was fighting with habib he was supposed to fight with habib so and i'm kind of his fan as [1:01] well and uh yeah i'm so excited to compete and uh what was the question like i mean you kind of [1:11] answered like yeah i'm excited to be here so i'm excited to wrestle tony ferguson on this and [1:20] yeah and for you tony being part of raf all the way in the back here um being there you are um being a [1:28] part of this promotion obviously sets up some big opportunities like you versus armin is obviously a [1:33] very big deal everyone's very excited for this but armin just dropped a name and rf and izzy and chad [1:40] say all the time like no matches off the table so can fans finally get tony ferguson versus habib [1:46] normaga made off but in raf he's fat if he's done being fat then we can talk but till now he's [1:53] over kabib is on his world tour i have armand sarukian that's in front of me we were gonna wrestle [1:57] over for hype a long time ago didn't didn't work out i was like no you can't afford me i was like not [2:03] the time and it wasn't i'm a hunter but i don't like to kill things i like to track things and at the [2:07] time he wasn't ready to be hunted what i did was i gave him some homework and he took it went with [2:14] it and now we're here now we're front and center being able to do this and being able to give you [2:19] guys a badass show one thing is is you guys don't know how i really move in wrestling you guys have [2:25] seen me move in mma without shoes now this is a different sport now when you had lance that was up [2:31] here he's talking about the difference between mma and wrestling now i come from sports that have [2:36] football baseball wrestling soccer basketball now all of them have shoes now when we step on the [2:42] mat we only wear wrestling shoes that's one big difference you know we try not to disrespect the [2:46] mat but the mat is not i want to say sacred but it's a different type of place and when you're a [2:50] wrestler you just have that mentality mma is a little bit different boxing a little bit different [2:54] i'm always mixing and crossing my sports but with wrestling wrestling's pure to me i love wrestling [3:00] i hate to lose that wrestling i got burned out in wrestling so much that you have to lose i hid [3:07] you hate or not you you're gonna lose tomorrow i've got probably like less than this many losses [3:12] on my hands from the last whole career of wrestling i've been pinned less than i don't know so when it [3:21] goes into it like these are numbers and different things that i hid for a long time because i knew at [3:25] the right time when i was gonna wrestle khabib i was gonna bring it out because he didn't need to [3:31] know all that right away because i grew up wanting to be special forces now goggin stuff was really easy to [3:37] me i went through the hell week i got my medal i got all that stuff i kept to myself and i watched [3:43] everything unfold as i've taught it but i had to make sure that i was in shape during pandemic i really [3:50] injured myself i didn't like myself there was things i want i was competing for another medal that was the [3:57] same i already have that medal i don't want that medal i want other medals i want other exciting things [4:03] that are gonna help propel not just my career okay next question no being real because look he might [4:10] what are you talking about i have no clue well i'm glad you got a pulse now because damn you were [4:14] boring what are you saying okay next question i said that you were a stick in the mud and it was [4:20] only until you started to say that you wanted to be the world's best athlete and saying the stuff [4:24] that i said okay good i wanted to be the world's best athlete you started to say my material that's [4:29] what kind of lit a fire underneath me and i said you know what just like everybody else when they [4:32] wanted a picture they were shooting for underhooks i'ma uchimata your ass where's your baseball [4:36] baseball ball where's your baseball ball now he's got a pulse that's the guy here you go right here [4:42] ben i did not i did not know tony was a superstar baseball player i did not know that one i did [4:47] know you won an ncaa title at grand valley state uh 20 years ago from right now tony in 2006 but they [4:54] didn't have a lot of video in 2006 so you talk about the way you move in wrestling tell us about it [4:58] because i don't know because they didn't have video back then how do you move well say it again dude you [5:03] can't hear me what was the question yo can you hear me now yeah i do yeah yeah yes sir you're [5:15] talking about the way you move in wrestling but did you go back to right see i love i like to do all [5:23] the stuff you know who is here i'm a freestyler before folk style no you know who's asking this [5:30] question to you you know him yeah i know ben ben's chill he's going to be wrestling out here too look [5:35] wrestling is the one sport that brings everybody together like grappling but wrestling is the oldest [5:39] what combat sport in history everybody copied wrestling you're going to tell me you're a better [5:44] wrestler than me you know how many matches and wrestling things i've been in like in the college [5:48] like staying after for three hours to make this stuff happen you're talking about like three [5:52] national champions i bumped up two weight classes and wrestled john jones at the cliff key national [5:56] duels and lost by one point i was waiting at 174 176 when these guys were cutting from 200. i took [6:04] third at nationals that year it was a long time ago now best thing is i heal and i'm really good [6:13] i'm halfway to 84. what are you going to do when i whoop your ass what are you going to say then [6:17] you're going to lose a million bucks too you got way too much going on in your mind you're not [6:21] focused on what's going on okay that's enough that's enough let me talk too i'm gonna blast w [6:25] all right man i got a question for you there's been some stuff on online saying that you're getting [6:29] he knows you're getting some t-ball matches here kale has seen me move i happen to know that there's some [6:34] people that just got signed to this organization named jordan burroughs would that match interest [6:39] you at all yes a lot so the jordan burroughs was the first guy that face of raf who was uh he was [6:48] the first guy that i was watching on youtube because he has a crazy highlights when i was maybe eight [6:53] years old he had like uh highlights and when i was like maybe nine i was wearing his a6 uh gold shoes [7:02] with his signing you know and i was like uh his fan and uh yeah it would be would be big for me to [7:09] wrestle him but i need to to get more experience here all right thank you tony next question right [7:18] here hi uh elijah talent from fight dork media my question is for armin uh you're undefeated uh [7:25] who gave you the most trouble uh in raf yes sir nobody perfect answer good luck tomorrow [7:38] even tony is not gonna give me any heart wake up tony prepared for the dancing not for the wrestling [7:47] you have you seen his training you move like a turtle he's dancing on the trainings oh my gosh [7:53] you have a pulse i mean when we were in thailand it was the same thing i was getting paid to go out [7:57] and this guy was hiding behind me scared Tony have you wrestled for this man i'm not gonna tell [8:03] everybody did you have any any wrestling wrestling practice for this for this uh wrestling or not [8:09] this is we're gonna wrestle and i'm not that kind of yeah i know we're gonna wrestle bro everybody [8:14] knows we're gonna wrestle i'm asking have you had the the wrestling practice for this wrestling fire [8:20] or no you know what the funny thing is is i've had zero wrestling partners for this camp bro i've seen [8:25] you know what the best thing is only you in the gym do you know what i own dance take this out i own [8:30] adam takedown machines how many wrestlers are in here know what an adam takedown machine is [8:35] i own that i bought that from dan gable's roommate i flew him in and i showed him exactly what i could [8:40] do with that machine not just jiu-jitsu but in wrestling i don't understand striking and everything [8:44] else now if your bones are stronger than metal we'll see how that goes please