Andrei Arlovski: ‘I just can’t lose again’
After I lost to Brett Rogers, I had meetings with all my trainers, and they gave me a lot of…
After I lost to Brett Rogers, I had meetings with all my trainers, and they gave me a lot of ultimatums, said Arlovski. They said that I had to do it their way, or that I would have to start to look for new trainers. When I fought Rogers I didn’t stick to my game plan and I didn’t take him seriously.
After that loss, I just kept training and training, and in November of 2009 I met with Greg Jackson and started training with him. I came back and trained in Chicago and then started working with Bob Cook and the guys at AKA Academy and then went back to Chicago. So I’ve had a lot of experience with different trainers.
Everything happens for a reason, and I’m more disciplined now. I’m definitely going to stick to my game plan. No more flying knees like against Emelianenko. No more putting my hands down like I did against Rogers. No more losing. I just can’t lose again. It’s very dramatic for me to lose fights and I want to climb back into the top. It’s going to be a very tough and important fight for me.
Now that I’m in Chicago all my good friends are here and like brothers to me and they support me all the time and they try to keep me in a right way. Before, all the time I worried about where my girlfriend was going to sit or how was she going to fly to the place where I am. Now I have a great girlfriend who supports me and she never asks me, ‘Oh, can I go?’ She lets me focus on my MMA career. Now, it’s just train hard, sleep and eat. I’m just focused on my MMA career and climbing back to the top.
Before I fought Rogers my mind was on Emelianenko. Now, it’s one step at a time. After May 15 then we can talk.