Arman Tsarukyan beat Tony Ferguson by tech fall, 10-0, in the co-main event of RAF 10 on Saturday night at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, stopping the match in the second period at 1:22 at 175 pounds.
Tsarukyan jumped to a 6-0 lead early with a big toss to the mat and kept Ferguson on his back long enough to run the scoreboard to a shutout. The decisive margin and the official time — 10-0 in 1:22 — underscored how quickly the contest tilted. After the bell, Tsarukyan threw his wrestling shoes into the crowd and promised a similar finish when he meets Colby Covington next: "It’s going to be easier than Tony Ferguson! Easier! This is the easiest money!"
The match was sold as a meeting of two well-known UFC-era names but it landed as a stern reminder of where both men are in their careers. Tsarukyan, wrestling at 175 pounds, is on his sixth RAF outing of 2026 after competing in the promotion's previous five events and had dominated Mugzy at RAF 9 just two weeks earlier. Ferguson, a former NCWA national champion who ended his MMA run on eight consecutive losses before moving into Misfits Boxing, has two boxing wins under his belt, including a middleweight championship fight.
What was supposed to be a competitive throwback instead played out one-sided. Ferguson looked noticeably older on the mats and never recovered after the early toss; Tsarukyan controlled position and pace from the opening exchange and never allowed a scramble that might have changed the score. The mismatch on the scoreboard — and the speed of the stoppage — is the friction here: the bout’s billing promised a spectacle, but the result reinforced that Tsarukyan’s constant activity in RAF has sharpened a game that simply overwhelmed Ferguson’s return to combat sports.
The outcome rewrites immediate stakes. Tsarukyan is now set to face Covington at RAF 11 on July 18, and he left the ring insisting the next victory will be easier. Covington has already pushed back publicly, warning there will be no more "cupcake" matchups for Tsarukyan and saying he will "break him on the mats." That exchange frames the real question heading into RAF 11: can Tsarukyan translate another fast tech-fall against a former MMA staple into the same dominance against a top-level grappler like Covington, or will the stylistic step up expose limits this one-sided result hinted at?
