Arlovski still competing against the best is shocking!!

I like seeing old guys beat and win over the competition but I'm over AA. All respect in the world but there's just something about him that fails to excite me.

I remember when Maia went on a streak of mostly finishes against young guys who were suppose to beat him. That was pleasing to watch.
 
GOATtalks said:
Is he, though? I think he’s great, but I don’t think he beats Gane and Ngannou
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Francis probably isn't going to be in the sport for 3 more years honestly. He's 35 and has already had a taste of Hollywood which makes me think he's going to get out of this game at some point.

Cyril is going to be tough for most HWs to beat but Aspinall has faster and better hands imo, maybe not as good with the kicks, but he is pretty damn good on the ground.

Honestly it's a fight I really look forward to in a couple of years. Unless they fast track Aspinall n we see it end of year next year.
 
ExitLUPin said:
So is Fedor

his next fight is Timothy Johnson whos beaten

Kongo (top 20 HW in the world)
Mitrione (top 30 HW in the world)
Tybura (top 10 UFC HW)
Shamil (top 10 UFC HW)
also got robbed against Volkov (#5 UFC HW)
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AA's advantage over Fedor is that he didn't take years off and I know that sounds dumb but he kept fighting, he kept his body in fight shape and his mind focused on fighting.

Fedor was out eating ice cream for years.
 
It only indicates that HW isn't the most stacked division in the sport.
 
Arlovski will beat Carlos Felipe. Felipe is terrible - he's a HW without KO power, that's not a good mix at all. Arlovski will cruise to a decision over him, without breaking a sweat. Felipe is also a weird one, in that he doesn't look very big but yet almost hits the limit at HW. He's only like 6ft tall maximum, has quite small shoulders / small frame, not a huge gut really but somehow is approaching 265lbs.
 
Kvolcom said:
He's won 3 of his last 4 too! Only lost is to Aspinall who is legit.

This guy was around before Zuffa bought the UFC. During his prime he really dominated other than Tim(who he did beat once)

Even beat werdum after losing to Tim (underrated win) Went on a huge losing streak after fedor, was beating him before getting caught tho. Mentally broke him, then he boucned back big after that only losing once in 13 fights. Wins against Mir, Bigfoot, Travis Browne during that streak.


Years later still fighting top 10 guys. Respect to him.
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I'm glad he's found a way to hack the system and stay low enough under the radar to basically be a journeyman and make a steady salary.
Curious to see if the UFC don't just cut him anyway as he's too old to fragile to be marketable champ, and he's on a higher tier salary that's going to be hard to justify as he isn't that well known among the mainstream audience.
 
Pakman said:
AA's advantage over Fedor is that he didn't take years off and I know that sounds dumb but he kept fighting, he kept his body in fight shape and his mind focused on fighting.

Fedor was out eating ice cream for years.
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Plus, Fedor abused his body way more than Arlovski when they were in their prime, with Fedor competing at the highest level of both MMA and Sambo combat
(Sambo from 1998 first year he got Gold, to 2012, the last year Fedor got Gold at Moscow for the Russian championships)

We can also add his early (1997 to 2000) Russian and international Judo competitions.

In Comparison, AA only did 2 years of Sambo. Really wish we'd see him use his ground game more, his submission of Tim Sylvia was really something "back in the days"

I'm really, really glad he came back from the Roz KO
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Right when it happened, in just 30 seconds, I got Brett Rogers flashbacks and remembered what happened after that one, a couple more bad losses...

But Arlovski had that ability to be able to get KO'd under a minute once in a while, like with Miocic, Roz, Brett, and still be able to come back and kick ass like it never happened.

I sure hope he can get a slice of that boxing cake before it gets stale, since for lots of Sherdoggers, AA was one of the guys we really really wanted to watch give the noble art a shot before calling it a career.
Apologize to Freddie Roach and ask him for one last camp, c'mon Pitbull, Datsik is active right now, time for the rematch 22 years in the making!

WARLOVSKI!!!!


Still the AA ko that made me the happiest to this day...
Browne is seen as a joke nowadays by younger fans, Mr Ronda and all that... but after finishing GG, Barnett and Ubereem in a row all in the first round [all 3 got Knockout Of The Night], Hapa had more nuthuggers than any UFC HW got right now...

Werdum decisioning him for that shot at interim title was a HUGE deal, Fabricio was the official underdog, and all the polls had him losing to the new breed by a wide margin.
Then he rebounded by taking Schaub's soul, and the AA fight was perceived as another gimme fight for Hapa's road to the title shot...
Andrei was a massive underdog, and as a fan I was just hoping he wouldn't get hurt too bad by those hellbows from heck.
AA gets dropped, aw shit, and then OOOH <{danawhoah}>
Well deserved FOTN <RomeroSalute>


Let's hope he can pull it off against Carlos "Boi" Felipe;

has anyone watched Felipe's boxing bout against Yuri "Urão" Andrey?

I can't seem to find it online <mma1> or any info on how the bout went down, actually...
 
He'll be stringing together win streaks follows by losing streaks until he's 80 years old.
 
I’m just an armchair warrior, but I think he should slowly be working on his transition out of mma and not keep going until something bad happens.
 
I guess if that fat Brazilian Augusto Sakai is the “best” then you have a point. He’s been fighting low-tier fighters for the last like 5 years.
 
Legend

I remember when he left the UFC with Dana’s blessing (he was on a win streak) to take down Fedor.

Plan was to defeat Fedor, then return to the UFC as the conquering hero and so the UFC can finally claim to have the #1 HW in the world.

Didn’t work out as Dana planned, but those were good times.
 
"competing against the best" is what JDS did. Arlovski's just competing against the rest.

If Arlovski had fought the same string of opponents JDS fought he'd probably be mean mugging in pro wrestling as well.
 
Richard Fannin said:
Plus, Fedor abused his body way more than Arlovski when they were in their prime, with Fedor competing at the highest level of both MMA and Sambo combat
(Sambo from 1998 first year he got Gold, to 2012, the last year Fedor got Gold at Moscow for the Russian championships)

We can also add his early (1997 to 2000) Russian and international Judo competitions.

In Comparison, AA only did 2 years of Sambo. Really wish we'd see him use his ground game more, his submission of Tim Sylvia was really something "back in the days"

I'm really, really glad he came back from the Roz KO
VagueCreamyFunnelweaverspider-size_restricted.gif

Right when it happened, in just 30 seconds, I got Brett Rogers flashbacks and remembered what happened after that one, a couple more bad losses...

But Arlovski had that ability to be able to get KO'd under a minute once in a while, like with Miocic, Roz, Brett, and still be able to come back and kick ass like it never happened.

I sure hope he can get a slice of that boxing cake before it gets stale, since for lots of Sherdoggers, AA was one of the guys we really really wanted to watch give the noble art a shot before calling it a career.
Apologize to Freddie Roach and ask him for one last camp, c'mon Pitbull, Datsik is active right now, time for the rematch 22 years in the making!

WARLOVSKI!!!!


Still the AA ko that made me the happiest to this day...
Browne is seen as a joke nowadays by younger fans, Mr Ronda and all that... but after finishing GG, Barnett and Ubereem in a row all in the first round [all 3 got Knockout Of The Night], Hapa had more nuthuggers than any UFC HW got right now...

Werdum decisioning him for that shot at interim title was a HUGE deal, Fabricio was the official underdog, and all the polls had him losing to the new breed by a wide margin.
Then he rebounded by taking Schaub's soul, and the AA fight was perceived as another gimme fight for Hapa's road to the title shot...
Andrei was a massive underdog, and as a fan I was just hoping he wouldn't get hurt too bad by those hellbows from heck.
AA gets dropped, aw shit, and then OOOH <{danawhoah}>
Well deserved FOTN <RomeroSalute>


Let's hope he can pull it off against Carlos "Boi" Felipe;

has anyone watched Felipe's boxing bout against Yuri "Urão" Andrey?

I can't seem to find it online <mma1> or any info on how the bout went down, actually...
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I saw AA vs Browne live, it was even more amazing than any of the gifs can make it out to be.
 
I've said this before, but when I first really got into UFC many years ago, there were only 4 divisions and the champions were:

Matt Hughes-WW
Rich Franklin - MW
Chuck Liddell - LHW
Andre Arlovski - HW

Those other guys are now long gone, and there are now there are 8 divisions (men) and 4 divisions (women). The guy is truly a dinosaur living in modern times. Amazing.
 
M4D SCIENTIST said:
This is more a testament to how weak the heavyweight division is, but kudos to him for seemingly reinventing himself, and his chin.
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I love it when Shermongos knock the HW division and claim how weak it is while all of their favorite fighters are fainting and getting transported to the E.R. with kidney failure, trying to avoid them. It's only 206lbs to reach HW, guys...
 
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