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Arman Tsarukyan vs Mauricio Ruffy

Red corner ArmanTsarukyan“Ahalkalakets”American Top Team · Born in Akhalkalaki, Georgia · Fights out of Yerevan, Armenia
VSSettled
Blue corner MauricioRuffyThe Fighting Nerds · Born in Coruripe, Alagoas, Brazil · Fights out of São Paulo, Brazil
Lightweight5 rounds19 Sep 2026At the time: #2 Lightweight vs #7 · rankings of 8 September 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
24-3
Record
14-3
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 7"
Height
+4″5' 11"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+612
UFC bouts
6
5/1050% of wins
Finishes
+30%4/580% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
The Fighting Nerds
Akhalkalaki, Georgia
Born in
Coruripe, Alagoas, Brazil
Yerevan, Armenia
Fights out of
São Paulo, Brazil
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Arman Tsarukyan
82.1% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 47%
Vs the market+9.5pp
Market had our pick at73%
The fight
Arman Tsarukyan
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 5
Clock4:56
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Arman Tsarukyan at 82.1% and Arman Tsarukyan won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:56 of action⚡ 1 KD TsarukyanEnded 4:56
Arman Tsarukyan8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS12%1 of 4
Mauricio Ruffy4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
1 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:00
Control
0:06
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Arman Tsarukyan

Round
1
Clock
4:56
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Arman Tsarukyan

3.25takedowns / 15 min
3.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
9.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
34%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Mauricio Ruffy

0.00takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Arman TsarukyanMauricio RuffyPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Arman Tsarukyan vs Mauricio Ruffy — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Arman Tsarukyan and Mauricio Ruffy from Sep 09 to Sep 19, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Arman Tsarukyan moves from 75% to 72% and Mauricio Ruffy from 25% to 28%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Sep 9Sep 11Sep 14Sep 17Sep 19▲ we flagged Arman Tsarukyan (LOCK) here72%28%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Arman Tsarukyan's implied chance moved down from 75% to 72% (−2.5pp).

Our published call had Arman Tsarukyan at 82.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 72.5% — our number sat 9.6pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Arman Tsarukyan — sportsbook consensus72.6%71.6%74.1%71.6%−1.0pp
Mauricio Ruffy — sportsbook consensus27.4%25.9%28.4%28.4%+1.0pp
Arman Tsarukyan — Polymarket75.0%72.5%75.0%72.5%−2.5pp
Mauricio Ruffy — Polymarket25.0%25.0%27.5%27.5%+2.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,560 snapshots on file · window Sep 09 04:11–Sep 19 23:51Z · last capture Sep 19, 23:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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