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HUMBLED, ARLOVSKI IS RESTOCKING HIS ARSENAL Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - by Steven Marrocco - MMAWeekly.com LOS ANGELES – Former light heavyweight and heavyweight boxing champion Michael Moorer loves the attitude Andrei Arlovski wants to change.
“I love his personality,” said Moorer, ringside at Wild Card Gym after a session with the former UFC heavyweight champ. “Just like mine: don’t give a (expletive).”
Moorer, a chief assistant to gym patriarch Freddie Roach, is training Arlovski for his boxing debut on June 27, and presumably, his fight with Brett Rogers on June 6 at Strikeforce in St. Louis.
Moorer loves MMA and watches it frequently. Training wise, he’s as new to it as Roach, and can’t speak for anything other than the pugilistic part of Arlovski’s training. Anderson Silva wanted to bring him to Brazil to train, but he declined.
In Arlovski, he sees a young, talented fighter that can be molded. The downside of the attitude doesn’t concern him, and anyway, he hasn’t been around long enough to see its effects.
“That’s just the way I was,” he said. “You’ve gotta have a chip on your shoulder in boxing. You have to have arrogance. You gotta have a little disrespect. You gotta show that. How many nice guys you know make it?”
Arlovski arrived with a different plan. After a right hand crushed his dreams of toppling the dominant Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction "Day of Reckoning," he said he needed more discipline. He didn’t follow the gameplan; he was reckless in attempting the flying knee that set up Emelianenko’s punch. Roach wanted an immediate rematch.
Back in Chicago, Arlovski made a promise to his trainers – no more complaining. He wanted Roach and Moorer to push him.
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So he's giving up MMA for Boxing??? Or he's just trying to improve his boxing?
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