When Andrei “Pit Bull” Arlovski left UFC for Affliction in 2008, he was considered to be hot on the comeback trail, and perhaps one of the sport’s fastest-rising stars — especially after ending Ben Rothwell’s 13-fight win streak in Affliction: Banned on July 19 of that year. But he had also ended a relationship with former Playboy model Patricia Mikula. And it wasn’t long before his downward spiral commenced.

Did beauty kill the beast? We’ll probably never know for sure. But we do know that Arlovski seems to have hit rock bottom recently, confessing to having played Russian Roulette, with live ammo, sometime during the past few months. Do we believe him? Probably.

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What the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo is for fans of erotica, E3 is for hardcore gamers. Starting today in Los Angeles and going through Thursday, E3 is a virtual cornucopia of excess for the gaming world, with all of the big names making major announcements and rolling out new titles. (And with every company employing scads of scantily-clad “booth workers” to intice horny video game nerds, it’s a lot closer to an adult video convention than you would think.) And while the main headline so far has been the announcement of “Rock Band: Beatles” (complete with a virtual Yoko Ono shrieking at you during the Expert levels), there has also been plenty of news on the sports video gaming front.

For example, GAMASUTRA says that EA Sports (the 700 lb. gorilla of sports video games) is readying an MMA video game for a 2010 release, as a competitor to the UFC-branded game series by THQ. Their press release on “EA Sports MMA” mentions that they plan on having “a vast array of top fighters and fighting styles from around the world,” which seems almost impossible without the UFC brand. They could include fighters like Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski, but the names the casual fan knows will be tough to pull off since they are all part of the UFC banner.

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Steve Cofield, the brains behind the Vegas-based blog MR. SUNSHINE, lent his talents to the YAHOO MMA BLOG recently, and spun a delectable tale of a love triangle blossoming between bitter head-bashing foes.

It goes a little something like this: UFC champ Andrei Arlovski has an on-going feud with fellow fighter Tim Sylvia. The duo has already faced off three times, with Sylvia holding a 2-1 edge, and neither guy is particularly fond of the other.

When Arlovski wasn’t tearing up the ring with Tim, he was cozying up with Patrycja Mikula, a former Playboy Cyber Girl & ring card girl. But after two years together, Andrei & Patrycja parted ways, which was probably a relief for Arlovski’s supporters:

Fans lashed out at Mikula alleging that she turned Arlovski soft. Arlovski did get very metrosexual, waxing his body hair for fights, once he shacked up with Mikula.

(Andy & Patty in happier times)

So, now who do you think Arlovski’s former flame was recently spotted out & about with? Read more…