The (Mateusz) Gamrot fight stands out to me and always will. I don’t care how you scored it, we don’t need to have that debate, that discussion — not you and I, but anyone ever — because we should all just agree it’s a great fight and what modern MMA is all about, just like Islam’s first fight with Volk.
Madden: It’s a fight that every coach, every MMA fighter should have in their textbook for this is what modern MMA looks like. And at that time, it’s two people, especially Arman, but two guys that don’t have a preference where the fight takes place; “I can fight you anywhere and I can beat you anywhere.”
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Islam is getting closer to that, but he can’t necessarily say that either, because his grappling is just so dominant that he’s always going to lean towards that. Tsarukyan is someone that can fight you anywhere and beat you anywhere, and that’s very impressive.
Kyte: I think a lot of people think of Arman as a wrestler, but if you pull up his resume, he stops Christos Giagos with strikes, bludgeons Joel Alvarez with elbows, knocks out Joaquim Silva, clobbered Beneil Dariush. Dude has got sudden power and all the striking weapons at his disposal.
Wrestling and grappling are probably his go-to if you want to strip it down to the one thing he does the absolute best, but he’s one of these dudes that isn’t A+ anywhere, but he’s a rock-solid A everywhere, and I would take that over a guy that is an A+ at one thing, but a B or B+ in a couple other things.