Andrei Arlovski is again!
‘The Pitbull’ was launched from the UFC final summer season after struggling his fourth-straight loss in opposition to Martin Buday by way of break up resolution. Now, the previous heavyweight titleholder is about to make his first look of 2025 underneath ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry’s Soiled Boxing Championship banner.
Based on the promotion’s official Instagram, Arlovski, 46, will sq. off in opposition to Terrance Hodges, a 40-year-old veteran who has competed in combined martial arts, Muay Thai, and kickboxing. Hodges has misplaced his final 5 fights and has not seen his hand raised since November 2019.
Arlovski competed contained in the Octagon 41 instances and captured each the undisputed and the interim UFC heavyweight titles alongside the way in which. His greatest victories got here in opposition to Tim Sylvia, Fabricio Werdum, Ben Rothwell, Roy Nelson, Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva, and Frank Mir.
The Pitbull’ additionally competed for Strikeforce, World Sequence of Combating, ONE Championship, and the short-lived Affliction MMA promotion.
Andrei Arlovski joins a stacked DBX 1 lineup
Earlier than reserving his DBX debut, Arlovski was drafted to the World Combat League’s Group Los Angeles the place he’ll proceed his MMA profession. At DBX 1, he’ll compete in four-ounce gloves, with a ruleset that permits for each elbows and conditional floor and pound.
Try the present lineup for DBX 1 beneath:
- Yoel Romero vs. Ras Hylton
- Andrei Arlovski vs. Terrance Hodges
- Ulysses Diaz vs. Brian Maxwell
- Mike Breeden vs. Eric Moon
- Maurice Greene vs. Rakim Cleveland
- Bubba Jenkins vs. Gabriel Macario
- Alexander Schenk vs. Tristan Gallichan
- Robinson Perez vs. Oluwale Bambgbose
- Claudia Zamora vs. Kat Nelson
- Diego Romo vs. Sean Hotusing
- Corey Jackson vs. Marcellus Wallace
- Guilherme Bastos vs. Gabriel Morales
