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Quoteworthy:
"[Andrei Arlovski] made a young man's mistake. It was too easy for him. He was winning the fight handily I thought, controlling the fight like we planned. He got a little cocky, and he tried the flying knee from too far away, no setup, and he paid for it ... Fedor swings hard, that's his thing. He probably had his eye closed, but he just got lucky, I think. If we had followed a more disciplined fight, and kept to the game plan, I think it was going to be easy."
Freddie Roach -- who has raved about the boxing skills of his pupil, Andrei Arlovski, heading into his superfight against WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction: "Day of Reckoning -- talks about what went wrong last night. "The Pitbull" was knocked out cold by the cornered and very dangerous Russian cyborg in the first round while attempting a flying knee. Roach chalks it up to youthful inexperience and a little bit of luck. Perhaps Emelianenko should have used better technique and fought more like a man. That way, maybe, he wouldn't now be eating crow or having to cough up $5,000 to M-1 Global's Gary Millen in a sidebet.
Photo courtesy of Arlovski.com.