Fedor looked like ****...Uhhh ?

The blue print for beating Fedor is simply not make any mistakes. AA failed.

 

What Arlovski did was going right into Fedors trap. Fedor was more passive than maybe ever before, because he knew not to underestimate AA. AA believed his fans and actually thought he had a chance big enough to be able to try a flying knee. His one and only chance wasn't that big.

 

It was the least aggresive Fedor we've seen since Hunt, when he was positively sluggish.

 

Good point!

 

It wasn't that he was sluggish...he's got some nice speed with his hands. It was a difficult look AA gave Fedor and it was clear Fedor was a bit confused...unable to land his looping shots and being countered was something Fedor was not use to. But the counter that mattered landed off AA's Flying knee which is all that matters!

 

Agreed. My point was that with his excellent resume and being undefeated for so long, his mystique is such that any sign he shows of being human is going to be critiqued in a way that other fighter's don't get critiqued.
Most knowledgeable fans realize that he's been in trouble before and thus his performance against Arlovski shouldn't be deemed as bad.

 

I think people are blowing Arlovskis "mistake" out of proportion. It did cost him the match.. but he tried one flying knee. Fighters try that sorta stuff all the time. It´s not like he did a handstand in the the ring.. he did one tried one flying knee and BAM. I think it shows more how alert and dangerous Fedor is. Very few if any would have used that single opening to totally dispose of Andrei.

 

You are correct about that point. Fedor...the champion he is and the fighter he is was able to capitolize on a mistake perfectly. Credit is all his. But what most are saying about AA is that without a doubt AA was doing everything right up to that point and his boxing was controling Fedor unlike anything we've seen. Even Cro Cop with his great Kicks didn't have as good success that what little we saw from Andre and his stand up. I would have like to see how the fight would have played out had the flying knee never happened and I'd still not say Andre would have won b/c Fedor has a way of winning in all of his fights. It just intrigued me that Arlovski was doing so well with his boxing against Fedor. I think Most were a bit surprised.

 

Fedor didn't even try to box with AA because he knew he shouldn't underestimate him. I'm pretty sure Fedor knew AA was going to either exhaust 1 hour before himself or make a big/tiny mistake like he did. Fedor was simply playing it safe and not rushing in with a flurry of punches(Because as Roach already spoiled for the entire world: Arlovski was still going with traditional boxing/punching. And haymakers and looping punches like Fedor landed on Sylvia would not be as succesful).

If this fight would go to round 2 or 3(When fighters lose power and speed and actually have increased knockout resistance) I'm 98% sure Fedor would be able to outbox and totally slaughter AA standing up. And It's even more certain he would be able to come close with a series of punches for a takedown and let his groundgame do the talking(Which in 100% of all fights ends with Fedor on top pounding for TKO, on the side in an armbar or on your back with a chockehold).

 

Arlovski just has a weak chin and that's why he lost.

 

discrediting arlovskis chin is unfair, that shot wouldve slept anyone, and i mean anyone

 

Is anyone going to rag on Evans because Griffin won the 1st two rounds in their fight? Or Mir who was getting pulverized by Lesnar before he won?

Fedor has proven that he only needs a millisecond to take advantage of a situation to take someone out. The strike he clocked AA with would have taken any fighter out.

 

What utter rubbish

 

If anything AA looked like ****!

Who the **** goes for a flying knee anyway? I wouldnt do that if I was fighting a total tomato can let alone the roughest man in the world.

Fedor played possum and AA walked right into it.