Urijah Faber said he was fine after the fall at RAF 8, but he did not hold back when he addressed Arman Tsarukyan afterward.
Faber posted an Instagram statement after the match, reacting to the sequence where Tsarukyan drove through on a takedown and sent both men off the stage. The match continued, and Tsarukyan went on to win by technical fall.
Faber wrote:
“He’s got all the makings of a champion,” Faber wrote. “Except for self control. Spoiled kid for life. Congrats [Tsarukyan], too much cushion for a hospital visit.”
He also added #pudding, a callback to the pre-match back-and-forth after Tsarukyan mocked Faber’s conditioning.
Faber’s résumé made the response land harder
Faber is a former WEC featherweight champion, a three-time UFC bantamweight title challenger, and the founder of Team Alpha Male. Because of that history, his reaction carried more weight than a routine post-match jab.
Tsarukyan later said at the post-fight press conference that he did not mean to drive Faber off the stage, but RAF executive Izzy Martinez still criticized the moment.
Martinez said:
“I don’t like it. I don’t like that,” Martinez said. “You might as well punch him so he can protect himself. Pushing a guy off the stage is pretty dirty to me and I’m not a big fan of that.”
“I didn’t like it on my end, even though it was viral. But I don’t have to like everything. I’ve learned that. It’s a promotional thing and it is what it is.”
Faber’s statement made clear that, from his side, this was not just an awkward scramble. He saw it as a self-control issue.
