Arman Tsarukyan REVEALS what happened with UFC doctor before Islam Makhachev fight | Daniel Cormier

So you get into MMA, right? Everything's going good. You get the call Moscow. You're fighting Islam. >> St. Petersburg. >> St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. >> You're fighting Islamachev on 7 days notice. >> I said right away yes. >> Really? >> Yeah. And he said no. He said >> there is opportunity to fight with

Islamachev in two weeks or 3 weeks. It was two or three weeks. I said and he didn't say when. I said Islamachev you want to fight? I said yes. And he's asking, "Do you don't want to hear when?" He said, "Doesn't matter. I just need two weeks to cut me." Okay. So, you

got like two and a half or 3 weeks. So, and um and I knew like I'm going to beat him. I don't know why I thought like I'm going to beat him because I was super confident because you got to be confident. >> You can't believe you're going to lose >> if you for example if I didn't take that

chance. I I could be at home right now. Maybe I'm never could come in US and like learn English and like never be in UFC like I could fight in my country and uh you know if I didn't take that chance that moment >> and it legitimized you right away right cuz everybody's like wow this kid fought

Islam so good and he didn't have a training camp. Yeah, was good fight and uh and then I started winning fights and uh rematch almost happened but >> it almost happened >> almost happened. I pulled my back but you see that we we fought first time and like almost in six years we again almost

fought because we we were we were the best in the division. So, [snorts] >> and he always kind of gives you praise for her. Even when they ask today like who's the best lightweight in the world, he always says, "I believe Arman Turkan." >> Yeah. >> And that's the respect that probably was