Arman Tsarukyan won't let anything stand between him and UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria. Tsarukyan looked every bit the nearly seven-to-one favorite against Dan Hooker, submitting him inside two rounds at Saturday's UFC Fight Night in Qatar.

The UFC and its fans soured on Tsarukyan after pulling out of a lightweight title shot against Islam Makhachev on 24 hours' notice earlier this year. Tsarukyan halfway redeemed himself with the promotion by weighing in as the back-up fighter for Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira, and seemingly completed his redemption arc by beating the lower ranked Hooker.

"He's the only guy who wanted to fight me," Tsarukyan said of Hooker in his post-fight interview. "Everyone else ran, especially Ilia. If you're here, come on, we need to face off. There's only

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