June - 2015
SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
36
The Second Coming
Of Andrei Arlovski
Article By: Jay Anderson
Waiting around for the sec-
ond coming of just about
anything can feel like, well,
waiting for the second com-
ing, frankly. And in MMA,
career resurgences are few
and far between. Yet every
rule has its exception, and
when it comes to late career
resurgences in the sport,
look no further than Andrei
Arlovski, who quite frankly
lit up Travis Browne at UFC
187 Saturday night.
Make no mistake: this Fight
of the Night winner, which
has a shot at fight of the
year, was arguably the big-
gest fight for Arlovski since
he faced Fedor Emelianenko
in Affliction back in 2009.
Had he lost his return fight
in the UFC to Brendan
Schaub last year, few would
have been surprised, and he
still would have been given
another fight or two. Yet
by winning against Browne
in the biggest upset of the
night (Browne was ranked
third, while Arlovski himself
had somehow slipped to
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