Team Bios

Fighter:  Andrei Arlovski

Weight Class:  Heavyweight

Team:  A. Arlovski Pitbull Team
Home: Chicago

Birth Place: Minsk, Belarus

Height:  6'4"

Weight:  240
Style:   Kickboxing/Sambo

MMA Record: 10-3-0

Andrei Arlovski was born on February 4, 1979 in Minsk, Belarus.  Athletic from the get go, Arlovski was an avid soccer player in his youth.

At age 18, Andrei began training at age 18 in Sambo, while preparing for a career with the Minsk, Belarus police force.  Developed by the Russian military, Sambo is a grappling art, a hybrid of sorts between Jiu-Jitsu and Judo.  At age 19, Arlovski was runner up in the Sambo world championships; at age 20, he won the Sambo Championships, and repeated this feat at age 21, where he was also awarded the title, Sambo Master.

Not content in merely mastering a grappling art, Arlovski turned to Mixed Martial Arts and began training for kickboxing with former world champion kick boxer Dimitri Stepanov and K-1 Champion Andrei Dudko. 

On April 9, 1999, Arlovski lost in the M-1 MFC –World Championship 1999 to Viacheslay Datsik by knockout.  This was followed by two wins at the M-1 MFC European Championships 2000 against Michael Tielrooy (Guillotine Choke) and Roman Zentsov (TKO Strikes).

It was time to enter the big ring... The UFC...

Arlovski came to the U.S. to train for the UFC when he was 22 years old. Alex Andriovski and Alexi Dubovik brought fighters, Andre Dudko and Dimitri Stepanov.  Andre Dudko was a K-1 Champ in 2002 and Dimitri Stepanov was a world champion and Andrei’s mentor. 

“Andrei Arlovski was the third fighter from that group, taking lessons from Stepanov and Dudko in Belarus (mainly Stepanov and Andrievski). Leo Khorolinsky is the one who manages him.  Dr James Stoxen DC was chosen as Andrei's doctor/chiropractor.wThe training team consists of Dino Costeas, Jiu-Jitsu Instructor, Michael Garcia, boxing trainer, and others.

In UFC #28, Arlovski won his first UFC fight with a superb armbar win vs. Aaron Brink

on his first UFC fight with a superb armbar win vs. Aaron Brink

He lost his next 2 fights to in UFC #32 to Ricco Rodriguez and another to in UFC #36 to Pedro Rizzo. His back was against the wall, as he had only one more fight on his contract.” 

In UFC # 32 Coming through in a clutch, Arlovski knocked out tough Englishman Ian “The Machine” Freeman in devastating fashion at UFC 40 in 2002. 

At UFC #47 in 2004, Andrei dramatically stopped Wesley “Cabbage” Correira by TKO.

Following the bout, Andrei traveled back to Russia where he had a donor bone grafted into his hand.   Arlovski’s hand troubles alleviated, trouble with his right shoulder flared up.

In UFC #51, he beat Tim Sylvia, on December 23rd in Vegas with a devastating right hand to the jaw and a ankle lock.  Andrei Arlovski, the new interim heavweight champion of the world. 
 

In UFC #53, Arlovski went on to dominate and TKO Justin Eilers at UFC 53 on June 4, 2005.

In UFC #55, he maintained hold of his title by knocking out Paul "The Headhunter" Buentello in 15 seconds.

Watch what happens next!

Trainer: Dino Costeas

Dino Costeas has 19 years experience in the Martial Arts and 11 years as a successful Instructor. He is the founder of A.M.A. (American Martial Arts), the head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor an Fitness Trainer of Iron Fist International and POW! Mixed Martial Arts Facility.  Within the last 8 years he has situated himself as the most respected Jiu-Jitsu and Submission instructor in Chicago, training multiple Midwest Jiu-Jitsu and Full Contact Submission Champions.

Dino himself is a Chicago Full Contact Submission Champion. His knowledge and experience has also lead him to help train U.F.C and World Shidokon Winners and the Russian Heavyweight Sambo Champion. Dino began his training in 1994 at the Rickson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in West Los Angeles and has traveled to Brazil to learn more about the art. He has been a member of Rickson's Associaton since it was formed. He continues to support the development and dedication of Jiu-Jitsu, staying loyal to the Rickson Gracie International Jiu-Jitsu Association.

For more information about Dino Costeas and POW Gym more...

Boxing Trainer:  Mike Garcia

Mike Garcia is a former world ranked featherweight Mike "The Fly" Garcia trains boxers like David Diaz, NBA star Kendall Gill and many others."

For more information on classes and camps at reasonable rates call JABB at 312-733-5222. JABB Boxing Gym is located at 410 N. Oakley near the intersection of Grand and Western in the heart of Chicago.

Team Doctor/Chiropractor: Dr James Stoxen DC

President Team Doctors Treatment and Training Center

Dr James Stoxen DC has been Andrei’s doctor/chiropractor for 6 years since he first came to the United States.  Dr Stoxen travels with the Arlovski Team and in fact you will see him in the ring after every one of Andreis fights.

He is not new to the fight world.  He has worked with boxers, kickboxers and MMA fighters such as K-1 champion, Andre Dudko, K-1 Champion Dimitri Stepanov, MMA fighter, Shonie Carter, boxers, Miguel "Macho" Hernandez, Luciano Perez, Trinidad Garcia, Olympian, Michael Bennett, Olympian, David Diaz, Rocky Martinez, Fernando Hernandez, Al "Speedy" Gonzalez, Jason Robinson, Jermaine Marks, Vaughn Bean, Cecelia Barazza, Chris Riley, Amber Gideon, Bryant Theolite, Jimmie Sandoval, Elizabeth Kerin, Olga Vlasova, John Black, Rosa Rubio, Nora Reyes, Sergey Dychkov, Diamond Baier, Rudy Cisneros, Charles Wade, Bose Ijaola, Kimmy Alaya, Daniel Castillo, UFC 2005, heavy weight champion, Andre Arlovski. and many others.

Dr James Stoxen, D.C., owns and operates Team Doctors Chiropractic Treatment and Training Center. Dr Stoxen is known worldwide not only the treatment of athletes and entertainers but he trains them for international competitions as well at Team Doctors, one of the first care centers in the world to combine treatment and training of world class athletes and celebrity entertainers.  For example, in 2004 alone, over 150 national, world champion or professional athletes, Broadway performers and top recording artists were added to the growing list of famous clients.   

He has chaired medical committees for numerous international sports organizations and has been a chiropractor for over 70 national and world championships in Algeria, England, USSR, Canada, Italy and other countries. He was a pioneer, organizing competitions between the US and the former Soviet Union before perestroika.  In fact, in 1989, Dr. Stoxen developed and organized the first sports medicine course for western doctors at the famed National Institute of Physical Culture and Sports Sciences in Moscow USSR for the FICS with leading experts of that country. 

Dr. Stoxen is an avid writer and author. He was appointed a member of the editorial advisory board for Muscle And Fitness magazine, American Fitness Quarterly and has written and published numerous articles and textbook chapters for other international publications too numerous to list.

For more information go to the Team Doctors web site.