Ilia Topuria didn’t have to fight at UFC Qatar to feel the walls of his division closing in. All he had to do was sit cageside and watch Arman Tsarukyan turn a high-stakes main event into a dominant, two-round suffocation of Dan Hooker , the kind of win that forces a champion to pay attention whether he wants to or not. And as if that wasn’t enough pressure, another prominent voice has now chimed in to support Tsarukyan’s claims for a title shot against ‘El Matador’!

Against Hooker, Tsarukyan didn’t ease back into competition; he tore into it with knees, elbows, a perfectly timed takedown, and a suffocating top game. By Round 2, he had Hooker trapped in an arm-triangle choke, squeezing until “The Hangman” tapped at 3:34. It wasn’t just a win. It was a statement

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