What is it about Andrei Arlovski whenever he fights Tim Sylvia?
Arlovski crushed Sylvia in their first fight, and things looked exactly
the same in their second fight until Arlovski rushed in and somehow got
caught with a punch he didn’t see coming that put him out. That one was
due to him being over aggressive and sloppy but fights three and four
are just something else.
I haven’t watched Arlovski vs Sylvia III in a long time but I
remember thinking Arlovski should have got the decision. Well okay,
sometimes decisions go the wrong way but now years later we have
Arlovski vs Sylvia IV and Arlovski sends Sylvia to the crashing to the
ground in a heap and follows up with a couple of soccer kicks (that
barely landed) for good measure.
The problem is, ONE FC has some crazy rule where you can soccer kick,
but only if the ref says you can?! They either need to allow soccer
kicks and knees on the ground or make them illegal. Having to look at
the ref to make sure he says it’s good to go defeats the purpose of
having them in the first place. By the time you look to see if he says
it’s okay you have wasted that second you needed to capitalize on you
opponent being hurt. All this rule will due is cause many more
situations like this one.
At this point Arlovski should be 3-1 against Tim Sylvia but because
of a bad judges decisions and some crazy rule he is 1-2-1 against him. I
almost hate to see what kind of weird thing is going to come out of the
next fight between these guys. And for the record, I am not some big
fan of either one of these guys. I like watching them fight and they
are certainly MMA legends, but I just call it like I see em.
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