Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski addressed his backstage brawl with streamer and influencer Jack Doherty with a statement released on Instagram following an altercation at the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight in Miami on Friday<\/p>\n
Doherty, who has largely built his brand around bumping into people and then hiding behind his bodyguard, picked the wrong person to play that prank after running into Arlovski. Videos showed Doherty pulling his usual stunt bumping into Arlovski but the veteran fighter wasn\u2019t playing games and Doherty\u2019s security didn\u2019t seem too eager to intervene this time around.<\/p>\n
A few seconds later, Doherty\u2019s crew started swinging and Arlovski came right back at them, eventually knocking one down and kicking at him before security broke up the melee.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I didn\u2019t beat [up] anyone, I just stopped the threat,\u201d Arlovski said about the incident. \u201cThey were threatening me, my wife, my kid and I have another friend [who was there]. I did what I was supposed to do, what every man is supposed to do. Stop the threat. I didn\u2019t beat them. I just stopped the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Multiple videos surfaced showing off the brawl and Doherty can be seen wearing a wireless microphone on his shirt so he was obviously recording his entire backstage walk at the Kaseya Center in Miami when the brawl broke out.<\/p>\n
While Doherty can be heard shouting \u201cchill\u201d numerous times after the situation popped off, members of his crew were still taking swings at Arlovski, who had no intention of backing down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess because they were looking for content for their website and I guess I was the victim,\u201d Arlovski said about the altercation. \u201cThey thought maybe it was going to be easy content for YouTube. Maybe that\u2019s why. Maybe I\u2019m old. Maybe because it was three idiots and a big bodyguard.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually it\u2019s kind of weird because I saw him walking but I didn\u2019t pay attention, he said he might be with him and he kind of landed one punch. I have to be more alert and pay attention to people that come around. That\u2019s the lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arlovski gave credit to his wife for calming down the situation after it first popped off because the veteran fighter admitted he was \u201cabout to snap\u201d when it happened.<\/p>\n
The whole ordeal lasted less than a minute before Arlovski exited in an elevator and Doherty scurried away as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
Arlovski admitted he did get punched one time during the brawl and happily volunteered to fight Doherty\u2019s bodyguard if perhaps Jake Paul or someone else wanted to make it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat guy he was sneaky,\u201d Arlovski said. \u201cHe sucker punched me and I didn\u2019t accept this f*cking punch, to be honest with you. They just tried to film some content I guess. [Jack Doherty] was successful at hiding behind his bodyguard\u2019s back and ran away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski addressed his backstage brawl with streamer and influencer Jack Doherty with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-360332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}