There isn’t any real explanation for what Andrei Arlovski is doing different now as a contender at 36 that he wasn’t doing as a has-been at 32. There’s no doubt that his coaches Greg Jackson, Brandon Gibson and Mike Winkeljohn have all been feeding him relevant advice ("avoid big blows, dude…"), but nobody on Earth could have predicted that Arlovski would turn things around after Sergei Kharitonov left him for dead in the swamps of New Jersey back in 2011.
Nobody.
And yet here he is a couple of days removed from taking down the colossus Travis Browne in a fight that might shake out as his chef d’oeuvre.