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What exactly is Arlovski's strategy?

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#1 ·
Does he think he has an iron chin and can stand and pound with people? He could easily win on points if he kept moving after strikes.
 
#2 ·
He just fights stupid now. He needs to retire because his chin is very weak at this point. He was winning that fight once again until he got tagged.
 
#6 ·
AA chin is more fragile than glass....i am convice if aa went on youtube and did some kimbo slice street fighting he would get wreck by anybody.
Arlovski is done!
Mentally!

Listening to him before this fight: he mentioned his 3 recent losses 3 times in a 6 minutes interview.
His main concern in this fight was not to lose.
It's not all about chin: the Fedor KO and Rogers KO are vicious. No fighter would have been able to *survive* thos punches.
And against Silva he took some powerful punches and didn't go down.

Arlovski's problem is his mind.
And it spread like a virus thru his body and it seems like he forgets to think.
His ring movement is messed up, his head movement, his hands are too low. Everything is fuc*ed up for him.

He needs to fight some D-level cans and get some confidence back.
If not, hang the gloves!

Become an actor or whateva!
 
#7 ·
His mind is fine, his chin is the problem, he looked great against fedor, the dude tonight, but once they tapped the chin it was lights out. Maybe if he got rid of those stupid twilight teeth things he wears and switch to a real mount guard he would be fine.
 
#3 ·
It's not really that Andre's chin is bad, but rather that he is 1) horribly predictable and 2) cannot shake old habits.

Andre always leaves his hands down after throwing strikes and always backs away from pressure in a straight line. If anyone puts and pressure on him he completely crumbles mentally. His chin is still good but he has just failed to learn anything from his last four bouts.
 
#10 ·
Arlovski has bad movement. He got pinned to the fence so many times. I knew it was a matter of time.

He had to stick and move or attempt take downs to keep em guessing. Sergei was plodding along just waiting for that one big shot. Man today was a sad day because it showed that the "much bigger" fighters won.

Wrote an article on the meteoric rise and falls of UFC/MMA fighters. Arlovski was one of em...

What happened...
 
#16 ·
Arlovski has bad movement. He got pinned to the fence so many times. I knew it was a matter of time.

He had to stick and move or attempt take downs to keep em guessing. Sergei was plodding along just waiting for that one big shot.
Bingo. Arlovski was doing pretty well for the first minute or so when he was using his footwork and speed hit Kharitonov from the outside while keeping his back off the fence. Then for whatever reason he stopped circling to the center of the cage and let Kharitonov back him up against the fence and pin him there, and once he started doing that it was game over.
 
#12 ·
Arlovski seemed to think he could out strike Sergei which is wrong instead he needed to pick and move, which he was doing at the start but towards the end he started to brawl and Sergei caught him a few times which shook him up so Andrei I would say needs to consider retirement which is unfortunate to say about a man who was once a legend of the sport
 
#13 ·
AA definitely has some issues, but lets give Kharitonov some credit here. He had a really good gameplan. He had obviously decided that he could afford to take 2-3 punches to give one, and he would get to AA eventually, and it worked perfectly. He planned to walk right through him and he did, it was well done by him, it was just the right way to fight AA.

AA is obviously no longer capable of hanging with upper level fighters, physically or mentally. He is just too chinney, and can't adjust his game to protect his weak chin.
 
#14 ·
If anyone else got KO'd by Sergei no-one would ever question that persons chin, they would just have been KO'd by someone who lands HARD.

His last fight vs Big Foot where he looked poor but wasn't rocked at all people then came out saying his chin is fine and he's recovered, now he gets KO'd by someone with seriously heavy hands and fickle fans are right on his back again.
 
#18 ·
As often as AA has gotten KO'ed, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets pugilistic dementia.

It also amazes me that, for someone who focuses on boxing in his traiing camps, how terrible his boxing is, and how mentally fragile he seems.

AA needs to relocate, take some time off, and regroup. He used to be one of my favorite fighters, and watching him get his ass kicked consistently isn't fun.
 
#22 ·
His boxing is pretty good. He's just too damn chinny.

And he doesn't pack enough power to go blow for blow with these guys.

He's a point fighter these days getting his clock cleaned every time he steps out of the house.
 
#23 ·
The sad part is that fight was so winnable for Arlovski, he just had to keep doing what he did in the first minute of the fight. Soften up Karitonov from the outside with punches & leg kicks, stick & move, stay off the fence, stay patient and don't trade with him. Just keep working away on him till the fight's over and win it on points or see if an opportunity opens up where he can use his hand speed to unload a fast hard combo.

But he didn't do that and got sucked into going shot for shot with Sergei, that's a sure way for him to lose a fight.
 
#25 ·
His strategy is simple......NEVER PROTECT HIS FACE WITH HIS HANDS.......at this point he isn't gonna get it, especially if he has worked with Freddie Roach and he still does it......

Bottom line is some fighters do this, they simple cannot train their minds to keep their freakin hands up....

Annoying as piss to watch over and over again, its such a simple flaw to fix...
 
#26 ·
I still hope to see more of Arlovski in SF, when you look at the run of losses he has suffered they have all been to very dangerous opponents, I just think they need to lower the bar for him a little and let him test some of the new guys out.

I was thinking this the other day after his loss to Kharitonov, and I would really like to see him fight Chad Griggs, for one I think it could be a awesome fight, ans it seems like the test for Griggs to see how he handles a more technical striker.
 
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