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When Alistair Overeem and Andrei Arlovski meet in the UFC Fight Night 87 main event this Sunday in Rotterdam, Netherlands, it will be a matchup between perhaps the two fighters in the history of the sport whose fates have been most dictated by their chins. When their chins have held up, they have both risen to the top of the sport and had extended success.