Muhammad Blasts Arlovski After Johnson Remarks

Belal Muhammad condemned Andrei Arlovski for remarks about the late Anthony Johnson that the welterweight champion said reflect a culture willing to trade basic decency for online attention.

Arlovski sparked backlash after an interview in which he revisited his 2013 unanimous decision loss to Johnson under the World Series of Fighting banner. The Belarusian heavyweight insisted he should have won the bout, then suggested he came out ahead anyway given that he remains alive while Johnson died in 2022 at age 38. Arlovski has since apologized.

Muhammad Calls Out Viral Attention Chase

The former UFC champion said the incident goes beyond one fighter's poor judgment. In a lengthy post on X shared by Sherdog, Muhammad wrote that anonymous accounts once concealed the worst impulses people were too embarrassed to say publicly. "Now the masks are off," he wrote.

Muhammad argued that chasing clicks now outweighs common courtesy. The pursuit of viral content has replaced respect and humanity as the guiding principle, he said, with people indifferent to whether the attention they draw is positive or negative.

The champion added that the most troubling development is the normalization of such behavior across platforms.

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• Sherdog — Belal Muhammad slams Andrei Arlovski over Anthony Johnson remarks