{"id":381677,"date":"2026-01-01T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:13:09","slug":"andrei-arlovski-fcking-dckhead-jack-doherty-claimed-he-wanted-to-fight-and-now-he-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381677\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Arlovski: \u2018F*cking d*ckhead\u2019 Jack Doherty claimed he wanted to fight and \u2018now he disappeared\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrei Arlovski went viral after his backstage altercation<\/a> with influencer and notorious troublemaker Jack Doherty but it doesn\u2019t sound like he ever expects to cross paths with him again.<\/p>\n

At the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight in Miami, Arlovski was making his way through a backstage area when Doherty ran into him \u2014 a move he pulls often before fleeing to hide behind his security guard \u2014 but he obviously failed to realize he was trying to prank a former UFC heavyweight champion. Second later, Arlovski was defending himself with members of Doherty\u2019s crew swinging at him and he came right back at them before eventually making his way into an elevator alongside his family.<\/p>\n

The infamous incident led to Doherty issuing a challenge to fight Arlovski or potentially set up a showdown with his bodyguard but the 46-year-old veteran, who next faces Ben Rothwell for the BKFC heavyweight title in February, says the outspoken social influender was ultimately more bark than bite.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was viral for only two days,\u201d Arlovski told MMA Fighting. \u201cHe called me this and that and [talked about] boxing and if I understood for MMA, my manager mentioned something like Misfits contacted them \u2026 and no response. Nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was super brave, super loud for those two or three days and now he disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Truth be told, Arlovski didn\u2019t even know anything about Doherty until a day after the altercation happened.<\/p>\n

Once videos surfaced showing the backstage brawl, Arlovski started getting bombarded with calls and text messages effectively offering him congratulations for defending himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen this [altercation] happened, I woke up the next morning and I didn\u2019t understand what was going on,\u201d Arlovski explained. \u201cA lot of people sent me text messages, phone calls [saying] \u2018you are a hero! You\u2019re the people\u2019s champ,\u2019 etc.. I guess the f*cking d*ckhead, he\u2019s not a super nice person, Jack Doherty or whatever his name is.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what\u2019s more interesting, I live in a small community and I was throwing a baseball with my son and some kids, [like 10 years old], \u2018oh you\u2019re the guy from TikTok!\u2019 I said TikTok? I don\u2019t have a TikTok. [They said] \u2018no, I saw you against Jack Doherty!\u2019 I\u2019m asking my son, who\u2019s Jack Doherty? That guy from [the Jake Paul-Anthony Joshua fight]. I\u2019m a hero right now on TikTok. I might open a TikTok and use TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arlovski later admitted that the entire ordeal actually earned him more attention than some of his fights in the UFC, he wasn\u2019t exactly excited about how the whole situation played out.<\/p>\n

With his wife and son by his side when the brawl began, Arlovski was understandably angry that there was no security around inside the Kaseya Center in Miami to prevent the social influencers from causing trouble much less trying to intervene when several of them attacked him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat surprised me and why I was disappointed \u2014 nobody tried to stop the f*cking fight,\u201d Arlovski lamented. \u201cEverybody started recording stuff. In those days, I don\u2019t understand them. No security. That bodyguard punched me because for some reason I thought he was [a person from the crowd] who just got lost for some reason. [I thought it was] an accident. One punch, I said what the f*ck? Second punch, I started chasing him and somebody started throwing punches from behind. It wasn\u2019t fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really appreciated and I\u2019m really proud of my wife and my son, they stood up for me and they tried to save my ass. That\u2019s the only memorable moment that was very exciting and I\u2019m proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

With his attention now turned towards his fight against Rothwell at KnuckleMania VI in Philadelphia, Arlovski is putting the whole mess behind him, especially after Doherty seemingly backed down from his supposed challenge for a fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know [if we\u2019ll ever cross paths again],\u201d Arlovski said. \u201cHopefully not but maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrei Arlovski went viral after his backstage altercation with influencer and notorious troublemaker Jack Doherty but it doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[33307,42718,49,48,641,701,638,82,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-381677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-bkfc","9":"tag-bkfc-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381677","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=381677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}