{"id":92451,"date":"2025-12-01T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arman-tsarukyan-ascends-top-2-in-lightweight-after-ufc-victory-4\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:10:30","slug":"arman-tsarukyan-ascends-top-2-in-lightweight-after-ufc-victory-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/arman-tsarukyan-ascends-top-2-in-lightweight-after-ufc-victory-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan Ascends: Top 2 in Lightweight After UFC Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
Arman Tsarukyan Climbs Lightweight Rankings After Dominating Dan Hooker at UFC Fight Night<\/h2>\n\nFighter Arman Tsarukyan proved his worth in the lightweight division by submitting Dan Hooker in the main event of UFC Fight Night held in Doha, Qatar. This triumph not only reaffirms his position as one of the best in the category, but also allowed him to regain a prominent place in the divisional ranking.\n\nTsarukyan, who hadn’t competed in more than a year and a half, needed a convincing victory to re-enter the division’s top. His performance earned him a rise to second place among the 155-pound fighters.\n\nIn addition to the Tsarukyan movement, there were changes in the welterweight weight category, where Ian Machado Garry moved up to fourth place after his victory over Belal Muhammad, who dropped to sixth place.\n\n\n
These are the updated rankings of Alofoke Deportes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nTom Aspinall’s first heavyweight title defense ended in a no contest at UFC 321.<\/em>\n\n
HEAVYWEIGHT (up to 265 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n
Tom Aspinall<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion\nRecord: 15-3, 1 NC\nLast: NC1 vs. Ciryl Gane, Oct. 25\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Ciryl Gane<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 13-2, 1 NC \nLast: NC1 vs. Tom Aspinall, Oct.25 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Curtis Blaydes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 19-5, 1 NC \nLast: W (TKO1) vs. Rizvan Kuniev, June 21 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Alexander Volkov<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 39-11 \nLast: W (SD) vs. Jailton Almeida, Oct. 25 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Sergei Pavlovich<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 20-3 \nLast: W (UD) vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta, Aug. 23 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Jailton Almeida<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 22-4 \nLast: L (SD) vs. Alexander Volkov, Oct. 25 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Record: 16-2 Last: W (KO1) vs. Shamil Gaziev, Nov. 22 Next: January 24 vs. Derrick Lewis\n\n\n
Renan Ferreira<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: PFL \nRecord: 13-4, 3 NC \nLast: L (KO1) vs. Francis Ngannou, Oct. 19, 2024 \nNext: December 13 vs. Vadim Nemkov\n\n\n
Serghei Spivac<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 17-6 \nLast: L (UD) vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta, June 7 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Derrick Lewis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 29-12, 1 NC \nLast: W (TKO1) vs. Tallison Teixeira, July 12 \nNext: January 24 vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nAlex Pereira knocked out Magomed Ankalaev with a vengeance at UFC 320 to regain the light heavyweight title.<\/em>\n\n\n
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT (up to 205 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Alex Pereira<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion \nRecord: 13-3 \nLast: W (TKO1) vs. Magomed Ankalaev, Oct. 4 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Magomed Ankalaev<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 1\nRecord: 21-2-1, 1 NC\nLast: L (TKO1) vs. Alex Pereira, Oct. 4\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Jir\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 32-5-1 \nLast: W (KO3) vs. Khalil Rountree Jr., Oct. 4 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Carlos Ulberg<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 14-1 \nLast: W (KO1) vs. Dominick Reyes, Sept. 27 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 14-7, 1 NC \nLast: L (KO3) vs. Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka, Oct. 4 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Azamat Murzakanov<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 16-0 \nLast: W (TKO1) vs. Aleksandar Raki\u0107, Oct. 25 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Dominick Reyes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 15-5 \nLast: L (KO1) vs. Carlos Ulberg, Sept. 27 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Aleksandar Raki\u0107<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 14-6 \nLast: L (TKO1) vs. Azamat Murzakanov, Oct. 25 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Jamahal Hill<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 12-4, 1 NC \nLast: L (UD) vs. Khalil Rountree Jr., June 21 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Corey Anderson<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: PFL Champion\nRecord: 20-6-1\nLast: W (UD) vs. Dovlet Yagshimuradov, Oct. 3\nNext: To be determined\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nKhamzat Chimaev is right where he long was expected to be: at the top of the UFC middleweight division.<\/em>\n\n
MIDDLEWEIGHT (up to 185 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n
Khamzat Chimaev<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion \nRecord: 15-0 \nLast: W (UD) vs. Dricus Du Plessis, Aug. 16 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Dricus du Plessis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 23-3 \nLast: L (UD) vs. Khamzat Chimaev, Aug. 16 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Nassourdine Imavov<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 17-4, 1 NC \nLast: W (US) vs. Caio Borralho, Sept. 6 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Sean Strickland<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 29-7 \nLast: L (UD) vs. Dricus Du Plessis, Feb. 8 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Israel Adesanya<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 24-5 \nLast: L (KO2) vs. Nassourdine Imavov, Feb. 1 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Anthony Hernandez<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 15-2, 1 NC \nLast: W (Sub4) vs. Roman Dolidze, Aug. 9 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Caio Borralho<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 17-2, 1 NC \nLast: L (UD) vs. Nassourdine Imavov, Sept. 6 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Brendan Allen<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 26-7 \nLast: W (TKO4) vs. Reinier de Ridder, Oct. 18 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Reinier de Ridder<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 21-3 \nLast: L (TKO4) vs. Brendan Allen, Oct. 18 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Robert Whittaker<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nRecord: 26-9\nLast: L (SD) vs. Reinier de Ridder, July 26\nNext: To be determined\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nIslam Makhachev vacated the lightweight title months ago, but winning the welterweight belt at UFC 322 made him a two-division champion.<\/em>\n\n
WELTERWEIGHT (up to 170 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n
Islam Makhachev<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion Record: 28-1 Last: W (UD) vs. Jack Della Maddalena, Nov. 15 Next: To be determined\n\n\n
Jack Della Maddalena<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 1\nRecord: 18-3\nLast: L (UD) vs. Islam Makhachev, Nov. 15\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Shavkat Rakhmonov<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 4\nRecord: 19-0\nLast: W (UD) vs. Ian Machado Garry, Dec. 7, 2024\nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Ian Machado Garry<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 5\nRecord: 17-1\nLast: W (UD) vs. Belal Muhammad, Nov. 22\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Michael Morales<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nPrevious Ranking: 6 \nRecord: 19-0 \nLast: W (TKO1) vs. Sean Brady, Nov. 15 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Belal Muhammad<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 3\nRecord: 24-5, 1 NC\nLast: L (UD) vs. Ian Machado Garry, Nov. 22\nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Kamaru Usman<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 21-4 \nLast: W (UD) vs. Joaquin Buckley, June 14 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Sean Brady<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 18-2 \nLast: L (TKO1) vs. Michael Morales, Nov. 15 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Carlos Prates<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 23-7 \nLast: W (KO1) vs. Leon Edwards, Nov. 15 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Joaquin Buckley<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 21-7 \nLast: L (UD) vs. Kamaru Usman, June 14 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nIlia Topuria had vacated the featherweight title before UFC 317, but winning the lightweight belt provided a glorious photo op.<\/em>\n\n\n
LIGHTWEIGHT (up to 155 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ilia Topuria<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion Record: 17-0 Last: W (KO1) vs. Charles Oliveira, June 28 Next: To be defined\n\n\n
Arman Tsarukyan<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious ranking: Unranked\nRecord: 23-3\nLast: W (Sub2) vs. Dan Hooker, Nov. 22\nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Charles Oliveira<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 2\nRecord: 36-11, 1 NC\nLast: W (Sub2) vs. Mateusz Gamrot, Oct. 11\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Max Holloway<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 3\nRecord: 27-8\nLast: W (UD) vs. Dustin Poirier, July 19\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Justin Gaethje<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 4\nRecord: 26-5\nLast: W (UD) vs. Rafael Fiziev, March 8\nNext: January 24 vs. Paddy Pimblett\n\n\n
Usman Nurmagomedov<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: PFL Champion \nPrevious Ranking: 5 \nRecord: 20-0, 1 NC \nLast: W (UD) vs. Paul Hughes, Oct. 3 \nNext: February 7 vs. Alfie Davis\n\n\n
Paddy Pimblett<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nPrevious Ranking: 6 \nRecord: 23-3 \nLast: W (TKO3) vs. Michael Chandler, April 12 \nNext: January 24 vs. Justin Gaethje\n\n\n
Mateusz Gamrot<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 7\nRecord: 25-4, 1 NC\nLast: L (Sub2) vs. Charles Oliveira, Oct. 11\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Rafael Fiziev<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nPrevious Ranking: 8 \nRecord: 13-4 NC \nLast: W (UD) vs. Ignacio Bahamondes, June 21 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Beno\u00eet Saint Denis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC\nPrevious Ranking: 9\nRecord: 16-3, 1 NC\nLast: W (KO1) vs. Beneil Dariush, Nov. 15\nNext: To be defined\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nAlexander Volkanovski recaptured the featherweight belt by beating Diego Lopes at UFC 314.<\/em>\n\n\n
FEATHERWEIGHT (up to 145 pounds)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Alexander Volkanovski<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC Champion Record: 27-4 Last: W (UD) vs. Diego Lopes, April 12 Next: January 31 vs. Diego Lopes\n\n\n
Movsar Evloev<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 19-0 \nLast: W (UD) vs. Aljamain Sterling, Dec. 7, 2024 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Diego Lopes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 27-7 \nLast: W (TKO2) vs. Jean Silva, Sept. 13 \nNext: January 31 vs. Alexander Volkanovski\n\n\n
Yair Rodriguez<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 16-5, 1 NC \nLast: W (UD) vs. Patricio Pitbull, April 12 \nNext: To be defined\n\n\n
Lerone Murphy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 17-0-1 \nLast: W (KO1) vs. Aaron Pico, Aug. 16 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Aljamain Sterling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nPromotion: UFC \nRecord: 25-5 \nLast: W (UD) vs. Brian Ortega, Aug. 23 \nNext: To be determined\n\n\n
Arman Tsarukyan Climbs Lightweight Rankings After Dominating Dan Hooker at UFC Fight Night Fighter Arman Tsarukyan proved his worth in the lightweight division by submitting Dan Hooker in the main event of UFC Fight Night held in Doha, Qatar. This triumph not only reaffirms his position as one of the best in the category, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5289,9391,2096,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-92451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arman-tsarukyan","9":"tag-dan-hooker","10":"tag-lightweight","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/figure>\n\n\nTom Aspinall’s first heavyweight title defense ended in a no contest at UFC 321.<\/em>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1005%2Fr1555774_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/figure>\n\n\nAlex Pereira knocked out Magomed Ankalaev with a vengeance at UFC 320 to regain the light heavyweight title.<\/em>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0818%2Fr1533531_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/figure>\n\n\nKhamzat Chimaev is right where he long was expected to be: at the top of the UFC middleweight division.<\/em>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1116%2Fr1576204_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/figure>\n\n\nIslam Makhachev vacated the lightweight title months ago, but winning the welterweight belt at UFC 322 made him a two-division champion.<\/em>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512573_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/figure>\n\n\nIlia Topuria had vacated the featherweight title before UFC 317, but winning the lightweight belt provided a glorious photo op.<\/em>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0414%2Fr1478535_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/figure>\n\n\nAlexander Volkanovski recaptured the featherweight belt by beating Diego Lopes at UFC 314.<\/em>\n\n\n