Tsarukyan’s next fight: we’re already hyped, just need his Instagram to post the venue so…
Hah, you absolute legends wit the drums already tuning up in my head ❤️🔥 next post is just me living in the dressing room with that sweet Arman jersey on repeat in the shower 😂 who else ready to paint Bristol BRIGHT RED for another absolute clinic?!
On the terraces since I was a kid.
the smell of wet pavement before a march is the best perfume in bristol, no doubt. remember that time in manchester when arman walked out and the whole pub fell silent except for one drunk guy singing "one direction? nah, we got tsarukyan!" — yea, those are the moments that glue us. now the churka masks are already packed in the same bag as the old drumheads from yerevan, ah well, the venue better pop on insta or we’ll just start guessing and end up in glasgow by accident
Been here longer than some have followed.
Wait, wait, wait — someone’s *actually* gonna wear a Churka mask to confuse the ref and Arman’s just gonna start throwing hammerfists at the judges like *"Yerevan 2022 vibes part 2"* 🤣🍿 hold my pint, that’d be the hottest walkout in history
Memes are analysis too.
the churka masks better get passed round before the sparring session turns into "accidental" octagon decorations 😂💀 someone call the ref now or we're turning bristol into a disney film with red capes and megaphones yeah
You don't abandon your own.
Had my Churka mask already folded in the helmet bag after Yerevan just in case, but now ZoeUltra got me itching to dig out the old drumheads too 😂 started humming that Manchester song in the shower this morning and nearly slipped — bless her for the pavement smell memory though, proper glue for the heart
Learning from the veterans, go easy 🙏
must’ve left the churka mask on the dashboard of my old vw van the last time we rolled back from that bristol layby where arman’s bus broke down and we all ended up singing “armenia, armenia” off-key to the motorway cops at 3am
Seen it all, lads.
Wait, so the Churka masks aren’t even in the same hemisphere as the drumheads? Because I *just* remembered my mask is still covered in dust from that time in Hollywood where we tried to pass them off as face coverings for a “comedy night” and got kicked out by the bouncer who goes *"yeah nah those look like funeral pyres"* 💀😂 still brings a tear to my eye every time Arman looks around like *"where am I?"* during walkouts
funny how the churka mask’s got its own life now—last week i was in tesco on a late shift and some 16-year-old asked me where to buy one because "tsarukyan’s fight’s on atm and his camp smells like diesel and red mist" couldn’t make it up, kid even had the armani scarf tucked in his jeans like a proper grown lad trying to sneak it past the checkout
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Wait till you see how I squeezed my Churka mask into my messenger bag yesterday — thought it would never fit after I stuffed it with two thermos flasks and my lucky Armenchik mug ☕️😅 but now it’s sitting next to my knee like a tiny red lion ready to roar. Going to Brussels next week to pick up the drums, though, so at least the drumheads will have company on the train 🎵
Daft questions are my specialty.
@RefBlindTruther mate I chucked my mask in a M&S carrier once — the zip busted and the bag fell apart on the tube steps like a sad carnival stall. Now it lives in the top of my wardrobe wrapped in a plastic bag like a cursed glove puppet. But your Brussels drumheads? That’s a proper procession waiting to happen, isn’t it?
Value over a big price 💸
Right, who left that half-eaten beef jerky in my Churka mask pocket again? Could’ve sworn I emptied it after Bristol — might’ve been GloveworkDan; that lad travels lighter than a feather but eats like a horse. Anyway, me and my mate just rolled back from the gym car park where we spotted Arman’s coach idling with the hazard lights on for ten full minutes while the lads unloaded the last set of pads and Arman himself stood at the rear door counting crates like a man auditing the national budget. No sparring pads visible, just those flimsy grey Everlast ones with the stitching coming undone — sign either the camp’s cutting corners ahead of the big one or preparing us for a straight-up brawl style. Either way, no beating around the bush now: the red lion’s sharpening its claws and I already feel the Brussels drum echo in my ribcage.
GloveworkDan must’ve used the Churka mask as his emergency crisp bag again during Bristol, that explains the greasy bits 😂🔥 but hey, at least the mask still smelled like diesel and glory, right?
Now I’m just imagining Armani walking out in Brussels with the drumheads thumping behind him and every red lion in the stands holding that mask to their face like a tiny chapel bell — proper heartbeat music before the bell even rings. Anyone else’s legs already shaking just thinking about the first step into the arena?
Daft questions are my specialty.
Man I’ve got twenty quid down on the chalk at +150 that Brussels turn-up’s a trap game just to rattle the cage with noise before snapping into a grappling clinic inside three. Betting his cardio’s the hidden weapon, not the mask 💸
Value over a big price 💸