Andrei Arlovski is back in the UFC!!!

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After six years fighting outside of the organization, former heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski returns to the UFC. UFC president Dana White tweeted the news on Thursday and a UFC official later confirmed the news with MMAWeekly.com.

Arlovski (21-10, 1 NC) captured the interim UFC heavyweight title at UFC 51 in February 2005 by submitting Tim Sylvia with an achilles lock in just 47 seconds. He defended the title against the late Justin Eilers at UFC 53 and was named the heavyweight champion. He defeated Paul Buentello at UFC 55 before losing back-to-back fights to Tim Sylvia.
 
He last competed in the Octagaon on March 1, 2008 at UFC 82 where he defeated Jake O’Brien by technical knockout. He left the UFC on good terms and signed with the now defunct Affliction fight promotion and fought in their inaugural event in July 2008. He next fought in an EliteXC and Affliction co-promoted event knocking out Roy Nelson. In January 2009, Arlovski got the fight every heavyweight was clamoring for at the time, a match-up with Fedor Emelianenko at Affiction: Day of Reckoning. He lost via knockout to the former Pride champion in the first round. He’d lose his next three fights under the Strikeforce banner.
 
Following his stint in Strikeforce, Arlovski fought in ProElite, ONE FC and World Series of Fighting. He’s gone 6-1-1 in his last eight fights. Arlovski last competed on Nov. 29, 2013, defeating Andreas Kraniotakes by TKO.

http://www.mmaweekly.com/former-heavyweight-champion-andrei-arlovski-returns-to-the-ufc

Glad to see him back. With Liddell retired, Anderson Silva on the sideline, and the Diaz brothers taking aself-imposed sabbaticals, I really needed to see one of my favorite fighters back in the big show!

WAR PITBULL!!!
 

THIS IS FUCKIN AWESOME NEWS!

Right on bro!

I'm hoping we get a matchup against another striker so we can see a beastly standup fight.
Maybe Mittrione, Nog, or a Roy Nelson rematch!!

Pitbull and big country rematch FTW!!!!!!   


Very happy to hear he is back in the ufc.

Sounds like his first fight will be against Schaub. Not a bad matchup. Baby girl chin vs baby girl chin.

WAR AA and his cooler baby girl chin!!!

Fuck yeah man, Andrei was one of the guys who got me into MMA!

poor arlovski...
he will get ko'd soon. i like him and i've met him (scary looking dude) but he is not smart enough to change and improve his game

Yeah I'm betting he'll be gone again soon. I'm just hoping we get a standup war or two before then.

I think Andrei's biggest problem has been his ego (glass jaw doesn't help). He always thought he should be earning more. I think if he had stuck it out with the UFC he'd be rich and retired. Having said that I love watching this guy fight and glad to see him back.

KO'ing Nelson would be a good way to restart his UFC career.