Arlovski vs. Browne almost didn’t happen
Dana White: “…I guarantee you, he gritted it out to show the doctors that he could fight. So the doctors said it’s up to you, do you want to fight? He said yes.
Andrei Arlovski continued his career resurgence with a first round technical knockout of Travis Browne after what was one of the best rounds of a fight in recent history.
But the amazing round that saw the fighters earn ‘Fight of the Night’ honors almost didn’t happen when Arlovski was injured two hours before fight time:
“Two hours before he came out, we didn’t think he was going to fight,” White revealed on the FOX Sports 1 post-fight show. “He popped something in his calf the night before, could barely walk, was limping. The doctors checked him out and I guarantee you, he gritted it out to show the doctors that he could fight. So the doctors said it’s up to you, do you want to fight? He said yes.
“Then I had people go get him and bring him to my dressing room and said, ‘Do you want to fight? Are you sure you want to take this fight? You don’t have to take this fight.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Is this seriously why you just called me back here?’ I said yeah. He said, ‘I’m fighting,’ and he left my dressing room. And then came out and did that.”