Overview
- Arman Tsarukyan says Ryan Garcia has not sent a $40,000 payment after Garcia’s team took back cash from a stream to count it and promised a bank wire that never came.
- Video from a Kick livestream shows Garcia handing over stacks of cash after losing a body-shot challenge tied to Tsarukyan’s friend, boxer Rafayel Simonyan.
- Tsarukyan told journalist Adam Zubayraev that Garcia has not even asked for bank details, and he said he will bring Khamzat Chimaev into a face-to-face talk with Garcia.
- Garcia responded on X by refusing to pay and proposing a fight with Tsarukyan, saying he would put up $100,000 and framing it as a boxing bout with elbows allowed.
- Outlets report the dispute based on Tsarukyan’s account without independent confirmation of nonpayment, and they note both men’s history with big side bets, including Garcia’s past payout to Devin Haney.