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NextImg:Exclusive | Arman Tsarukyan sees UFC champ Ilia Topuria taking ‘easy money’ instead of fighting him

Only one man deserves to challenge Ilia Topuria for the UFC lightweight championship he just earned on Saturday, in the eyes of that man: Arman Tsarukyan.

“Right now, it’s necessary to fight for the title,” Tsarukyan told The Post on Monday via video call from Thailand. “I’m contender No. 1, and I beat everybody in my division.”

There’s little room for argument with that logic, as Tsarukyan’s last fight was a victory over Charles Oliveira — the man Topuria just knocked out at UFC 317 in Las Vegas to become a career two-division champion.

Arman Tsarukyan poses on the scale during the UFC 317 official weigh-in, as the lightweight championship fight’s backup option, on June 27 in Las Vegas. Zuffa LLC

What’s kept the prospect of a title shot out of reach is the fact that the last time he was to fight for gold, Tsarukyan was pulled from the fight on the day of weigh-ins for his scheduled UFC 311 clash with then-champ Islam Makhachev.