I'm not liking this continous trend of people being quick to take away from Arlovski's little run there the past few years just because he got caught in a fight he was pretty much on his way of winning (for the second time against the same opponent) before the flash knockdown that left him screwed position wise and unable to do anything. He destroyed everyone on his path to the title, a list that is pretty impressive. Does it match up with the Heavyweight picture in PRIDE? No. Runs like Fedor's current one, Nog's past run, etc? Nah. But by UFC standards he did some pretty impressive shit. He's in the middle of what I believe will be a small set back, before dominating a third fight with Sylvia. After he does that everyone will be on his bandwagon again, because once he's 2-1 against Sylvia, than big Tim is out of his way for good and there's no one else (in the near future at least) that looks to be any big obstacle for him to get past. He'll be on top and dominating his opponents and everyone will be wishing he'd jump to PRIDE to see how good he really is like they were before.
This wasn't just to you jimmyterrell, but I've seen a lot of people in a subtle way kind of take away from Arlovski's run prior to the last Sylvia fight which I think is kinda stupid.
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