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No one could mistake them for young men. Not now. Not after everything they\u2019ve done and seen and endured. Not with the evidence of said things carved into their faces.<\/p>\n

Just look at them. Watch them at yesterday\u2019s pre-fight press conference<\/a> for the BKFC KnuckleMania VI event in Philadelphia on Saturday night. You\u2019ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n

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Andrei Arlovski, 47, former UFC heavyweight champion, a man whose nose has been aggressively repositioned on his face so many times he forgot where it started. And then there\u2019s Ben Rothwell, 44, current BKFC heavyweight champion, with a head like a shiny battering ram and two stale spirals for ears, blinking slowly through the scar tissue as he listens to his old foe talk about how, after two wins over Rothwell in MMA, Arlovski is pretty sure he\u2019s stuck in the man\u2019s head in ways that will prove useful in Saturday\u2019s bare-knuckle boxing match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how it probably looks to people,\u201d Rothwell told me by phone a few days earlier. \u201cIf I lose again it\u2019s like, ‘Hey, are you ever going to figure out how to beat this f***ing guy?’ Maybe that\u2019s what he thinks too, like he\u2019s got me figured out. Maybe I\u2019m not that intimidating to him. Maybe he\u2019s not worried about it. And I guess that\u2019s what makes me feel like, ‘Alright, man. I\u2019m going to f***ing show you. You still don\u2019t know what I\u2019m about.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Shouldn\u2019t he though? They had two previous fights, in two different MMA organizations, spaced out over a little more than decade. They\u2019ve spent nearly a half-hour trying to hurt each other on live television. They\u2019ve studied and trained for and thought about each other for, what, months of their lives at this point? It\u2019s to the point where they can\u2019t even really call the other an enemy anymore. They know each other too well for that.<\/p>\n

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Certainly Arlovski thinks so. At Thursday\u2019s press conference he said he\u2019s been stuck in Rothwell\u2019s head since 2009. (Their first meeting was at Affliction: Banned, in July 2008.) He also said that, as a man nearing 50, who\u2019s already survived bouts with cancer, a third bout with Rothwell is \u201cpretty much nothing\u201d by comparison.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just a big guy,\u201d Arlovski said. \u201cA lot of meat, bones and skin. That\u2019s it. And I\u2019m very excited about this f***ing fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a different thing to have a nemesis at this stage of life. There\u2019s a familiarity there, almost a comfort. They look across at each other and see an opponent who\u2019d like to separate them from consciousness, sure, but they also see a peer. There\u2019s a sense that, whatever animosity might be built into the relationship, at least you know<\/em> this guy. At least he, like you, is still out here doing it. His staying power as a fighter reflects your own. You are compatriots in a sense, two old veterans still hanging on in a young man\u2019s game. Whatever else you\u2019d like to take from one another, that is something you share.<\/p>\n

The first time they fought, Rothwell was 26 and fresh off a nine-fight winning streak in the IFL. Arlovski was 29, already on the back side of his UFC title reign, but seemingly still with plenty of fight left in him.<\/p>\n

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This was Rothwell\u2019s chance to show he belonged in the big time. The problem back then, he said, was that maybe he didn\u2019t entirely believe it himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first fight, there\u2019s nothing I can say, no excuses or anything,\u201d Rothwell said. \u201cI should have fought better. That\u2019s all. I had plenty of time to train for Andre. All I can chalk it up to is I was young in my career. I got overwhelmed by the opportunity. It was a huge fight, because I got told whoever won between me and Andre got to fight Fedor [Emelianenko], who at the time was the reigning heavyweight god, you know what I mean? Just to fight him, just to get a chance to fight him, it could have been life-changing. It could have completely changed the trajectory of my life. And Andre got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only did Arlovski get the fight with Emelianenko, who was then essentially undefeated and the consensus top heavyweight in the world, he did quite well in the fight \u2026 up to a point. For most of the first round he swatted the stoic Russian all over the Affliction ring like a cat with a mouse. Then, perhaps feeling too sure of himself, he backed Emelianenko into a corner and leapt toward him with a flying knee. By the time his body returned to earth, Arlovski was unconscious and defeated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The second time Rothwell and Arlovski fought, well, that was a different story. It was in the UFC in 2019. Fans thought they were both old then<\/em>. Arlovski got the decision in what was a largely forgettable fight in the careers of both men. Rothwell remembers Arlovski getting ahead early, outpointing him, pulling away on the scorecards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI turned it around in the third, bloodied him up a little bit, but he won the first two [rounds],\u201d Rothwell said. \u201cHe did a good job. Now it\u2019s seven years later and it\u2019s like, where are we both at? Let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n

One big difference between them now is these bare-knuckle fights are still somewhat new for Arlovski. He fought and won at a BKFC event last summer. He\u2019s done some other boxing here and there. But Rothwell has been living this bare-fisted version of the sport for several years now. He\u2019s 4-0 in BKFC, with finishes in every fight. He has the heavyweight championship around his waist. He has some things about this very specific and often bloody way of fighting more or less figured out. So if he can\u2019t beat Arlovski in this, at this stage, how\u2019s that going to feel?<\/p>\n

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At the same time, he can\u2019t quite bring himself to view Arlovski as a hated rival. It just doesn\u2019t work that way at this age, or with this kind of history between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cA part of me feels like, here’s a guy that I’m fighting for the third time that’s helping me make income one more time,\u201d Rothwell said. \u201cEven though he’s got those wins on me, him and I both helped each other make substantial amounts of money. He even said the Affliction fight for him, that was the best \u2014 he made some really big money at that period of time, and I also got paid a ridiculous amount, really, for 2008. I made really good money. And then 2019, him and I got another paycheck together.<\/p>\n

“So in a business sense, we’ve definitely helped each other. And it’s like, who would I be fighting right now if it wasn’t for Andre? Andre at least is helping us bring eyes to the whole thing, to the bare-knuckle fan base, and eyes to this event. So there is that respect. It’s undeniable respect for all that him and I have both put into this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, on Saturday night they\u2019ll go out there stripped to the waist, knuckles exposed, swinging for each other\u2019s faces until someone falls down and stays there. That\u2019s the business they\u2019ve chosen. At this point, they know it very well, just as they know there are not an infinite number of these opportunities left for them.<\/p>\n

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So why not go once more into the breech with an old rival? What\u2019s a little more of each other\u2019s blood spilled at this point? And who knows, maybe this time the result will be different. Maybe there are still some surprises left in this pairing, even after all these years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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