Fedor vs. Arlovski review by Eduardo Graca

Fedor vs. Arlovski review
by Eduardo Graça

First of all we must congratulate Affliction for such an exciting and professional event, regarding the only subject taken seriously on this blog, which is MMA.
Great performances by Belfort, Babalu, Barnett, Minotouro, Buentello, Yvel and Arlovski.

Now, to our points:

Arlovski was doing great with his boxing skills: his speed and head movement earned him the best spot at the openning couple of exchanges before their clinch. After the restart, arlovski scored two consecutives 1-2s(though only the straight rights of each combination really connected)and a solid front kick to Fedor's guts right before the flying knee attempt. Arlovski's aerial strike was interrupted by a brutal mid-air overhand right that would drop him face-first to the mat to put an end to the bout.
Yes, Andrei was winning the round. But he hadn't inflicted enough damage to his opponent to define any fight-ending momentums (which was actually proven by fedor's answer to arlovski's fight-ending flying knee attempt).
Arlovski was prevailing in one dimension of the game during the first 3 minutes of a 5 five-minutes rounds fight.
Yvel was also standing decently in his bout's early stand up exchganges, but once the fight reached the ground, one winner could clearly been portrayed in Barnett's easy mounting and violent pounding.
Fedor and Arlovski couldnt get to the ground in their fight, only because Fedor - who was clearly trying to catch Andrei's punch timing (while being hit a couple of times)- managed to figure out a way to prevail against Arlovski right in the same game dimension the belarussian was having the edge.The stand up.
Fedor needed one mistep(off the floor) from Andrei, and one punch to finish the fight.
Call it luck, but this fight was ended by Fedor's most notable characteristic.
Efficiency, ladies and gents.