Can Ten Days With Greg Jackson Help Andrei Arlovski?
From Sherdog:
Andrei Arlovskiis set to visit Greg Jackson’s MMA Academy in Albuquerque, N.M., for a 10-day training camp in the coming weeks.
The former UFC heavyweight champion will be joined by his jiu-jitsu instructor Dino Costeas and will continue his primary training under the Team Pitbull moniker out of Chicago. However, the former sambo champion is hoping to pick up some new skills from Jackson, his staff and his formidable stable of athletes to rebound from back-to-back knockout losses.
Granted, everything about Arlovski has looked great as of late except his chin. True, he has lost two fights in a row, but it was a one sided fight against Fedor until Arlovski's chin got dismantled. The fight against Roger's was over before it got started. However, Arlovski still has a tremendous offensive skill set when he's given the chance to implement it. I wonder just how effective ten days with Greg Jackson can be? It seems to me that Arlovski's biggest problem is his mental approach to fighting. However, Jackson has been known to heavily influence his fighters in a positive light, so maybe this will be beneficial. What do you think?
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I don't think 10 days is enough.
Probably needs a month or two at least.
Granted it was only against Rothwell, but thats the last fight that he really looked good in. If he can get a chin, build his confidence back up, and get back to the form he was showing in the Rothwell fight, hell even the way he looked in the Fedor fight, he could make it back up to top 5 status again.
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by _Felix_ on Oct 10, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Andrei has a lot of natural ability, is a very good offensive fighter and is very athletic. He doesn’t have a world class chin but his biggest problem, in my opinion, is the mental aspect of the game.
by SlickRick00 on Oct 10, 2009 10:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Greg Jackson excells at strategy and that is a major component that is lacking in AA’s game. As has been said, Arlovski has a very good offensive skill set however he also has a very weak chin that makes the standup very risky for him. I know he fancies himself a boxer but a boxer is going to get hit from time to time and that is something he can ill afford.
Jackson has the ability to draw up a system for Arlovski so he can maximize his strengths and guard his weaknesses. Perhaps using AA’s good footwork as a means of escape and getting in close for a clinch while standing, then using AA’s sambo and heavy hands to make him into a sub/G&P finisher. Jackson is smart enough to recognize AA’s boxing for the double-edged sword that it is.
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by villin on Oct 10, 2009 12:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good points. The more good coaching that Andrei can get exposed to can only help.
by SlickRick00 on Oct 10, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Couldn’t hurt. A little more than a week isn’t going to turn him into a new fighter, but training with some new dudes might open his eyes to a few things, or give him incentive to make a more permanent change in camps.
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by -Neil- on Oct 10, 2009 1:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The fool needs to join them permanently.
Bloody hell.
by 3PA on Oct 10, 2009 1:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
another thing some fans fail to consider when it comes to andrei and his"glassjaw" is that he is a HEVYWEIGHT, who wears little 8oz gloves and who takes alot of chaces and has paid the price for that. it seems like when he fights heavy hitters and and goes for it, he makes dumb decisions and gets koed. when he fights more cautiously, like the 3rd fight with sylvia and the werdum fight, his chin holds up just fine, but the fight ends up boring and he gets trounced on by the fans. i grew up a boxing fan and got into mma through that sport. wladimir klitschko is considerd to have a “glass jaw” and has ben koed and knocked down by much lesser fighters than him, but really alot of that had to do with his defense and his head movement and he hasn’t lost in a very long while since improving on these weaknesses. a “glassjaw” in boxing meant that a fighter could be knocked out with any old punch, hell even a jab. i don’t see this with arlovski or jardine. the punches they have been koed or tkoed with have been stright up bombs, and most of these fights both have had their chins up and moved stright back, making for an easy target. i’m not trying to say that fighters like a.a. and jardine and even forrest griffen don’t have suspect chins, but the term “glassjaw” is thrown around a litle too easily in mma imo. there are still some people who say gsp has a suspect chin or a glassjaw, when he’s only lost once by tko (he actually tapped, but it was a moot point by then) and he neve even got hit on the chin or jaw. it was a behind the ear punch that did him in.
by bdw on Oct 10, 2009 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
True. Not even 8 ounce gloves. Try 4 or 5.
by SlickRick00 on Oct 10, 2009 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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