{"id":173698,"date":"2015-10-28T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=173698"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:36:20","slug":"miocic-on-arlovski-fight-it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/miocic-on-arlovski-fight-it-is-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Miocic on Arlovski fight: &#8220;It is what it is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Ben Rothwell stated that he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/rothwell-believes-it-will-take-divine-intervention-to-get-top-ranked-hw-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believed it would take divine intervention for him to get a fight booked against a top ranked heavyweight<\/a> after Stipe Miocic was forced out of their &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Dublin&#8217; bout with an injured back and Andrei Arlovski declined to step in on short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Miocic planned on only being out for a few weeks, and told the UFC that he would be willing to re-book a fight with Rothwell, or fight Andrei Arlovski.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/10\/stipe-miocic-offered-to-fight-ben-rothwell-or-andrei-arlovski-he-was-given-the-latter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> to discuss the situation:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI told him I would (fight Rothwell), and they came back with Arlovski.  I mean, it is what it is. I wanted to fight Ben. But it\u2019s what the UFC wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re both big names.  They\u2019re both top-five guys. I think Rothwell is ranked seventh, but he\u2019s still beat top-five guys already and moved his way up. Arlovski is ranked fourth behind me, so yeah, I think it does, but it doesn\u2019t really matter because they\u2019re both game guys; they\u2019re both veterans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/stipe-miocic-booked-to-return-at-ufc-195\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miocic will now face Arlovski at UFC 195 on January 2nd.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Ben Rothwell stated that he believed it would take divine intervention for him to get a fight booked against a top ranked heavyweight after Stipe Miocic was forced out of their &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Dublin&#8217; bout with an injured back and Andrei Arlovski declined to step in on short notice. 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