Medical suspension following Strikeforce loss postpones Andrei Arlovski June 27 boxing debut

Maybe boxing a couple of cans will help him regain some confidence. As long as his hand gets raised, it can only help. Then he needs to get back to workin his sambo.

Still pulling for the pitbull. Hope he snaps out of his funk.

from the interviews I have heard of Arlovski after the Grim fight he seems to be in the right frame of mind. He sounds a lot better than he did after Sylvia had Ko’ed him because you could see that he had lost his confidence even in his interviews.

Hopefully he is ok mentally. If He is, he needs to regroup, and dedicate on implementing a well rounded arsenal to his game plan. He has the skills of a well rounded fighter. Time to go back to the basics and start using them again!

yeah the only real problem with Arlovski is his defense and it’s a big problem, he needs to move his head and get in some bobbing and weaving and start throwing more leather and power punches so that his opponents respect him!…
He should go and take some lessons from Rampage on how to defend himself!

Being out of chicago, Andre should seek out Miguel Torres and start working on his all around game. I think Torres could really help him out.

His defence better get good enough to stop him from getting hit with a half decent punch, because when he does get hit he will crumble and fall. There is no training that can help him take a descent shot on the chin. He has had some descent victories, but he beat most of the guys to the punch and displayed good technique, and never raelly eneded up taking a solid shot, but it appears wheh his skills let him down and he does get hit he just doesn’t posses what it takes to keep on going like the Lebans, Nate Diazs’ even Gurgel could get hammered in the face and keep going. Dennis Stonjic also displayed a chin of granite in his match against Cain Velasquez.

yeah but here’s the thing Robert, there are not many punches that actually lands clean even if it may look like it… It has to do with how they move and if they see the punch coming

I accept that but AA seems to get knocked out by anything no matter where it lands….Roger’s first punch was a grazing shot…I see fighter;’s take those all the time….AA can still be an animal and I hope he comes back!

Nah, the first 3 punch’s didn’t even land; they just backed AA up against the cage and he had nowhere to go, the grazing punch you’re talking about is just that; a grazing punch it didn’t put him away, it was the two that followed it while his back was up against the cage that put him away. Watch the fight again on MMAlinker; those were solid shots.

And thanks RoB; thats pretty much all I have to say about the KO; it’s all situational, right place/right time, obviously getting caught with a hook right on the jaw or the temple has a greater chance of KOing someone than getting caught on the cheek; some guys roll well with the punch’s and avoid the resulting KO, some of em just don’t see it coming, some of the punch’s thrown aren’t full force, some of them graze off the forearm before connecting and lose some force etc… etc… Thats why every punch landed isn’t a KO punch.

WTF is “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here”?

Dragon…ya don’t want to know. Lets just forget I brought it up. In my own defence we only have one decent TV in my house for a couple more weeks so I am forced to watch whatever “she” wants half the time

I feel ya man. I’ve been sucked into The Bachelorette. Has anyone beaten the crap out of those two whiny d-bags from The Hills yet?

I feel your pain re The Bachelorette PDubs…I always laugh when I hear them say “OH, I didn’t think it would be this hard”…OMG!!! I feel like driving my truck right through the front door Stallone style from “Over the Top”

I was going to watch the US I’m A Celeb this year because the UK show is usually pretty funny and Torrie Wilson is a contestant but as soon as I heard that those two aholes from the Hills and Janice Dickinson were in it as well I thought better of it.

Torri Wilson is a babe!!
apparently Heidi got so sick that she threw up about 40 times and was close to “death” lol, they felt like they were mistreated by the production team..

Yea, but after the 1st rd, would you not have said to yourself “man, my stand up ain’t cuttin’ it, let’s try something else”? The same with AA. He comes out so f-ing predictable anymore. With MMA having progressed so fast, I just can’t imagine that any fighter wouldn’t want to come out predictable if he has the training and arsenal to do so. If AA came out and shot in to take down Rogers, I think the outcome could have been different. Same with Sherk. His size alone should have played a major factor in the Edgar fight. You’re size doesn’t mean a whole lot in the stand up if you can’t hit the guy, but on the ground, different story…

Oh agreed 100%, I was speaking more in praise of Edgar and about how Sherk hasn’t got “the skills”.

It seems to me that MMA evolves every couple of years or so. To start BJJ was king, then the Wrestlers started to improve their GnP and they dominated – Now it’s the strikers turn – they’ve learned the BJJ and Wrestling and can nullify it. The current crop – Machida, Silva, St Pierre are all phenomenal strikers. Heavyweights are an odd one for me, freakish size and power can be a factor – Foreman’s return to boxing showed that, no other weight class would have a 50 year old competing at the top level.

For me the jury is out on Penn at the moment, research in all top level sport shows the very best train 8 hours a day, every day, regardless of their sport to keep that “eye of the tiger”, once you lose it and lose the willpower to keep up that kind of training it is very easy to get on a downward slope – as has become very apparent with old champions in the last few months.

True, true…I’ve never been convinced of BJ for some reason. He talks quite a bit, and complains a whole lot, but it just seems that he only brings his A game once in awhile. The present group of older fighters either evolve with the sport, or die with their bread and butter. Liddell, Pulver, Ortiz, Wandy, etc, etc…Couture seemed to understand this and continue to adapt his game, hence him being sucessful against the new breed of fighters. I’m curious to see how machida’s impact on the sport changes things in years to come. I’m jacked by the prospect of this sport getting back to more martial arts than wrestling, which was my original draw in the first place.

Absolutely! :) Black belt in Karate and Tae Kwon Do here, as well as a fair bit of Kickboxing and Aikido experience – I’ve never been keen on the wrestling side of MMA, ground and pound (or lay ’n pray as most of the Wrestlers seem to be doing lately) lacks the finesse or skill I appreciate. Saying that, the Wrestlers can be very skilful of course, just not seen anyone outstanding recently…