Sherdog’s Top 10: UFC Heavyweight Title Fights

4. Tim Sylvia vs. Andrei Arlovski
UFC 59
April 15, 2006 | Anaheim, California

Sylvia was intimately familiar with Arlovski, having submitted to an Achilles’ lock from the Belarusian in February 2005. They faced one another again a little more than a year later, and it was a different story. Working behind his quick, powerful hands, Arlovski found early success while probing for weaknesses in the challenger’s defenses. Midway through the first round, he uncorked an overhand right that cut down the 6-foot-8 Sylvia and had him scrambling to protect himself. In his haste to finish, Arlovski left himself open for a counterattack. A rattled but lucid Sylvia returned to his feet, floored the champion with a short but devastating right uppercut and then prompted the stoppage with a volley of unanswered right hands.

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