Fedor-Arlovski Set for Affliction in October

I’m always happy to see Fedor and this sounds like an excellent fight. Affliction needs to be very careful though not to keep recycling the same talent over and over. Bringing more fighters to the ring is going to be essential. If we see Ortiz and Couture both sign on it could be the breath of fresh air they’re going to need for their 3rd card (assuming one comes together).

Quick heads up… WAMMA is short for World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts not ‘Association’.

Thanks, fixed.

This is an interesting matchup - the Arlovski on the weekend looked like the Arlovski of old, this could be huge

Martin,

I have to disagree with your assessment.  Arlovski is much better than he “used” to be.  Previously he was a brawler and got beat quite easily in that style by another brawler.  He then changed his style for two fights to be completely tactical and managed to win both fights in decisions.  The first was extremely boring… The second he added in some aggressiveness and compiled a complete domination as the other guy could not touch him.  Finally he upped his aggressiveness but managed to keep his technical skill and has won his last two fights by KO without having to work all that hard.

The origonal Arlovski would have been destroyed by Fedor except for a punchers chance.  The “new” Arlovski stands a very good chance of being the next champion.

This will definitely be a war.  A dream fight for me.  Arlovski has always been one of my favorite fighters after Fedor.  It’s hard to assess the outcome of this fight…  I’ll give it a shot though.  Fedor has the ultimate set, no known weakness to be exposed.  On the other hand Arlovski has a suspect chin.  Hand speed will be a factor since I believe this will stay on the feet.  Advantage goes to Fedor here.  He slips punches extremely well and counters.  Arlovski sticks around a tad bit long.  I’m nervous to see this fight at the same time.  I would’ve loved to see Arlovski fight Couture first with the winner taking Fedor.