Rewatch I forgot how dominant Arlovski was against Fedor until the KO

[orca]

Peak jones got bullied by AA and Reem lol

can you show me peak jones got bullied by overeem?
or is this some lies you want people to believe to make yourself better?

 

[Kenny95]

Always said if Mirko used his straight punches against Fedor he would've beaten him, Arlovski had the blue print too with straight punches but !@#$ed it up. But watch slo mo... Fedor deflected all the punches in the final sequences from AA outside of the bodyshot

Fedor Bless

Straight punches are so effective. Jiri prochazka literally never throws straight punches even though he has more reach than every opponent in his weight class. Literally fights like a retard. Would have KOd Glover in the first 2 minutes if he had any sense.

 

[Croaker]

Before the fights Affliction would have Q&A's online with fighters, and I remember someone asking Arlovski if he was confident in beating Fedor. Not that he wouldn't find success or land punches, but if he truly believed he could finish him. Of course, Andrei said yes. When he went for the flying knee that question popped into my head and he conceived and believed but he only achieved getting sent to the shadow realm.

 

[Croaker]

can you show me peak jones got bullied by overeem?
or is this some lies you want people to believe to make yourself better?

IIRC Overeem bullying Jones is one of the reasons he got kicked out of the gym. Overeem allegedly mauled people who tried to step up.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It's fun rewatching the fight in high definition. Oscar Dela Hoya's reaction (I think he milked it a bit) to the finish is hilarious. Trump was nonchalant, and I never even noticed Royce before because of the grainy footage years ago.



Fedor was getting whooped - it was clear as day. I think Andrei broke his nose with the first punch he landed. I'm not gonna say Fedor got lucky, but a lot of people on forums did when it happened. Arlovski made a calculated risk which lost him the fight. He tried to finish the fight right away despite his chin issues.

Fedor looked much slower then Andrei and his punching technique was kinda ugly. He might've fought most of the fight dazed after the first exchange. Good thing for Fedor is that he threw bricks when he connected. AA was way more technical, and it seemed like he was very prepared even if the fight went to the ground.

Youd be surprised how many times that happened to Fedor. Randleman dropped him on his fcking head. Fujita rocked him pretty bad. Arona had dominant position on his for a while. Cro cop rocked him and broke his nose. He would always survive and finish. Then he got rich, probably lazier and older. Then the losses came. Too much vodka lol.

 

[BowserJr]

can you show me peak jones got bullied by overeem?
or is this some lies you want people to believe to make yourself better?

Overeem on injuring Jon Jones: 'I feel terrible'

In his first fight camp at Greg Jackson's in Albuquerque, heavyweight Alistair Overeem made the wrong kind of waves right off the bat by injuring champ Jon Jones. The Dutch heavyweight appeared The MMA Hour to talk about it.

www.mmafighting.com

Have fun

 

[HHJ]

 

[HHJ]

Quit training in Holland in 2005,

He only went there for the Mirko fight, and then I think he went back for the Monson fight.

It was never a thing for him go there on a regular basis.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

"Fedor-esque was that right hand, Joe."

 

[jjjjjjjjjjohnny]

interesting, i may not necessarily agree. i think AA was peppering Fedor with shots that are probably not very significant. I'm not sure what his game plan was but this is where fedor started to transition into a "KO Artist" - nothing greater at the time then watching Fedor pulverize UFC HW Champs.

 

[DesiredUserName]

AA did reasonably well by taking chances against the GOAT. That ultimately backfired for him. So what?

 

[egk]

interesting, i may not necessarily agree. i think AA was peppering Fedor with shots that are probably not very significant. I'm not sure what his game plan was but this is where fedor started to transition into a "KO Artist" - nothing greater at the time then watching Fedor pulverize UFC HW Champs.

Arlovski was winning but you can't say anything was "dominant" when there were still almost 2 minutes left in round 1 before the KO.
I think Fedor turning into a KO artist was his downfall. I'll always believe his last great performance was against Tim Sylvia in the fight before Arlovski. I think he neglected his ground game and grew lazy after that and when his chin went, that was it for him.

 

[Eater of Souls]

Arlovski was winning but you can't say anything was "dominant" when there were still almost 2 minutes left in round 1 before the KO.
I think Fedor turning into a KO artist was his downfall. I'll always believe his last great performance was against Tim Sylvia in the fight before Arlovski. I think he neglected his ground game and grew lazy after that and when his chin went, that was it for him.

He was showing signs of this against Sylvia as well. The careful planning and fight strategy was gone. The guy who smartly walked down Cro-cop and pulverized Nog from inside his guard was replaced by a guy who did nothing but blitz. Part of this may stem from his no longer making his training camps a complete priority including things like (cannot confirm) religious fasting during training camps, etc. He was no longer the laser-focused engine of destruction that ruled Pride and the entire HW division of the world.

PS: any idiot who says something about him "not fighting top competition because he was not in the UFC might wish to find their way to a place where they can look at the unified rankings of the time. While Pride was going strong they had all the top ranked HW fighters with only a couple of exceptions.

 

[HatKick]

Unbiased spectator here (never heard of MMA back then)
Fedor wasn't getting whooped. He was struggling a bit to find his rythm and took some good shots but he landed a few of his own too. The fight is too short to read a whole lot into it, other than Andrei was doing well, then made a mistake a payed for it.

 

[Fioretti]

Andrei worked the shit out of him.

One of the dumbest split-second decisions I've ever seen in MMA to jump up into Bolivia for no reason like that.

Fedor hit him with a no-look too.

Madness and fuckery.