Demetrious
Johnson claims Arman
Tsarukyan put a lesson from their training session together to
good use in his recent bout.

Tsarukyan further bolstered his case for a title shot in the

Ultimate Fighting Championship at UFC
331, knocking out Mauricio
Ruffy with an elbow at 4:56 of the opening round. The technique
he used to deliver the knockout was among the positions he worked
on alongside Johnson when they trained together.

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Arman Tsarukyan put Demetrious Johnson’s clinch advice to use
against Mauricio Ruffy

Johnson broke down the finish and highlighted Tsarukyan’s decision
to remain aggressive in close range rather than immediately looking
for another takedown when he had Ruffy up against the Octagon
wall.

“Now, instead of just wrestling here, like I said, you don’t have
to wrestle here,” Johnson said in a video posted to his YouTube
channel. “Look, he’s already here. That’s one of the things I
showed him. Usually people want to wrestle here, but I told him,
‘You don’t have to wrestle.’”

The UFC Hall of Famer also backed Tsarukyan for a title shot
against lightweight champ Justin
Gaethje.

“Those are things that he’s going to need when he takes on Justin
Gaethje, because Justin can push the pace,” Johnson said. “He can
do a lot of damage. He can wrestle, too. This is the fight that
needs to happen. We don’t need to worry about Ilia
Topuria. This man is owed a title shot.”


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