Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has revealed that he asked Michael Chandler not to sign with another promotion in the hopes they could secure a trilogy bout. Prior to signing for the UFC, both Alvarez and Chandler competed in Bellator and held the lightweight world championship. The pair fought on two occasions, trading the…
Conor McGregor has had a lot of great moments inside the Octagon but his win over Eddie Alvarez is considered to be one of the best performances ever. From start to finish, McGregor picked apart Alvarez and dropped him several times en route to a TKO win to become the lightweight champ. It was a…
Eddie Alvarez was impressed Dustin Poirier knocked out Conor McGregor at UFC 257, but says that “The Diamond” deserves all of his success. Poirier and McGregor met earlier this year on Fight Island in the rematch between the two longtime rivals. After their first meeting in September 2014 ended with McGregor knocking Poirier out in…
Very hard to imagine anyone handling a loss better than Michael Chandler as he faced the music after suffering a second-round TKO to new lightweight champion Charles Oliveira at UFC 262. While losing is never easy, Chandler hasn’t shied away from doing interviews or speaking openly about the mistakes he made that night after nearly…
Michael Chandler addresses his loss to Charles Oliveira at UFC 262, what went wrong and how he’s handling this defeat compared to past setbacks in his career. Chandler also discusses a possible showdown against Justin Gaethje next while responding to Eddie Alvarez saying that would be a “terrible matchup” for him It’s hard to imagine…
In a recent interview, UFC President Dana White said that he was interested in the fight between Americans Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler, and he would be ready to start organizing it. Former UFC and Bellator champion Eddie Alvarez thinks Gaethje is a bad option for Chandler. “I think Gaethje is a terrible match-up for…
Former UFC and Bellator champion and current fighter of the Asian ONE Championship Eddie Alvarez said he could have a boxing match with ring legend Oscar De La Hoya. Last month, 48-year-old De La Hoya announced his return to boxing, saying that he wants to get his rival fighter with a big name. Many began…
The ONE on TNT 1 tournament was held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore, in the co-main event of which ex-UFC and Bellator champion Eddie Alvarez and Luri Lapicus fought. The American started the fight briskly, pressing his opponent to the net, striking punches, which mostly fell to the back of the opponent’s head….
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy or sign-up through one of those links, you won’t pay a penny more but we’ll get a small commission that helps me in running this blog. Read the Disclosure page. Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez shared his advice with Conor McGregor, saying “he needs to temper himself…
For a very long time, the finished Eddie Alvarez has kept up that he has the style to hand Khabib Nurmagomedov his first expert misfortune. Eventually the matching neglected to at any point happen as intended, with Khabib resigning from professional mixed martial arts while Alvarez now plys his exchange Singapore at ONE Championship. While…
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