Andrei Arlovski

Andrei Valeryevich Arlovski , nicknamed The Pit Bull, is a Belarusian mixed martial artist, actor and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He has also competed for Strikeforce, WSOF, Affliction, EliteXC, ONE FC and M1 Challenge. Arlovski is the first man to ever knock out Roy Nelson and the second man ever to knock unconscious Travis Fulton, a veteran of over 300 MMA fights. As of February , 2016, Arlovski isin the official UFC heavyweight rankings.

Arlovski was born in Babruisk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic . When he was younger, bullies often picked on him and beat him up. In 1994, when he wasyears old, he finally had enough and started lifting weights to put on muscle and, he hoped, to help him deal with these bullies. Arlovski only took up martial arts at the age ofin Karate having previously been interested in football. It was an interest in personal fitness and conditioning that led Arlovski to take an interest in combat sports such as Sambo, Judo and Kickboxing .

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