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Eddie Alvarez: Khabib Nurmagomedov Beat Number 11 To Win Title

Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez won the belt the old=fashioned way, picking off the top five as he closed in on and ultimately knocked out then-champion Rafael Dos Anjos. According to “The Underground King,” newly-crowned lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov won the gold under very different circumstances. Alvarez recently gave his thoughts on Nurmagomedov’s title-winning […]

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Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez won the belt the old=fashioned way, picking off the top five as he closed in on and ultimately knocked out then-champion Rafael Dos Anjos.

According to “The Underground King,” newly-crowned lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov won the gold under very different circumstances.

Alvarez recently gave his thoughts on Nurmagomedov’s title-winning victory over No. 11-ranked Al Iaquinta at UFC 223 and was rather critical of Nurmagomedov’s championship win, Not surprisingly, he thinks he’s the man to beat Khabib:

“I know, 100 percent, matchup-wise, wrestling, stylistically, I watch the champion fight a lot. I am the guy to beat the champion. Not Dustin Poirier. Not Conor McGregor. Not anyone. I understand who I lost to, who I won (against). I’m the best style matchup. The champion don’t want to fight me right now. He knows. He’s going to pick off the wounded gazelles one by one. He’s going to take the good style matchups. I understand. Take them. I’ll be waiting in the end.”
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“What’s funny about this whole thing is, Khabib wasn’t a champion,” Alvarez said. “Now he’s the champion after beating no. 11. Let’s just get that out in the open. He says, ‘paper champion, who’s fake champion, who’s real champion?’ You beat no. 11, and now you’re champion. So think on that. Pray on that during Ramadan. No. 11, and now you’re champion.

“When I fought for the title, I literally fought no. 5, 4, 3, 2, then 1,” Alvarez continued. “I fought a champion, a guy who was a champion, who had a belt. That’s a real champion. I’ll continue to fight the best, and I’ll wait my turn. I’ll let the UFC do their job, pick who’s next in line, and I’ll be waiting there for all of them.”

Nurmagomedov remains undefeated with an unreal 25-0 record. The Dagestani thrashed a game Iaquinta over five rounds, and while ‘Raging Al’ certainly had his moments, Nurmagomedov ultimately won the lightweight belt after many attempts by the UFC to get him in a title fight.

Nurmagomedov has been scheduled to fight Tony Ferguson four times now, with Ferguson pulling out just days before UFC 223.

Meanwhile, Alvarez got back on track with a knockout over Justin Gaethje in December. Prior to that, illegal knees turned an otherwise thrilling fight with Dustin Poirier into a no contest. Now just two fights and one victory removed from losing his belt to Conor McGregor at UFC 205, Alvarez wants to be the first man to beat Nurmagomedov.

Does Alvarez have what it takes to beat the undefeated Nurmagomedov?

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Conor McGregor On UFC Stripping Him: You Ain’t Doing Nothing

A few weeks ago, the UFC had announced that Conor McGregor had relinquished his featherweight title after also becoming the promotion’s lightweight champion with a brutal knockout victory over Eddie Alvarez at Nov. 12’s UFC 205 from New York. The Irishman has remained relatively quiet on the matter since, but he finally broke the ice

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“All I know is they’re tying to type onto keyboard and say, we’re taking this belt, we’re taking that belt, we’re doing this, we’re doing that,” said McGregor, who was named the RTE Sports Person of the Year (Via MMAFighting). “You ain’t doing nothing without contacting me first.”

In addition to saying that McGregor had relinquished his title, UFC President Dana White also said that the “Notorious” one would be taking 10 months off due to the fact that he and his longtime girlfriend Dee Devlin would be having a baby. Apparently, McGregor’s baby will be born later than he expected, leading the Irishman to wonder where White got the 10 month mark from:

“As far as a break, I don’t know,” McGregor said. “I know Dana has been on record, being like, ’10 months — he’s taking 10 months off.’ Where did you [get] 10 months?”

According to McGregor, it seems as if there has been a lack of communication between him and the UFC, which was something he discussed after UFC 205. McGregor says that he is still waiting for his conversation with new owners WME-IMG:

“I just don’t know,” McGregor said. “I’m weighing up my options. But again, I expect that conversation. I expect them to fly that jet to me. Ari, Patrick, the new owners from WME-IMG, the guys that bought the UFC for $4 billion, I want to speak to them. I want to see what their plan is. Because right now I don’t know what nobody’s plan is.”

At the end of the day, however, McGregor isn’t worrying about what the promotion says or does. In his mind, he is a two-weight world champion:

“I’m still the two-weight world champion,” McGregor said. “Make no mistake about that. They can say what they want, they can try and get phony belts and hand them out to people I’ve already destroyed. I mean, the current champion (Jose Aldo) is a guy I KO’d in 13 seconds. The current interim champion (Max Holloway) is a guy I destroyed as well. … Officially, I don’t care what nobody says. I am the two-weight world champion and that is that.”

What do you make of McGregor’s comments?

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Coach: Conor McGregor Beating Tyron Woodley Is ‘Doable’

Conor McGregor’s fighting future is currently a cloudy mess. After adding the UFC lightweight title to his collection that already includes the UFC featherweight title at Nov. 12’s UFC 205, McGregor made it clear that he had a plethora of options waiting for him, although it was also said that he likely wouldn’t fight until

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Conor McGregor’s fighting future is currently a cloudy mess.

After adding the UFC lightweight title to his collection that already includes the UFC featherweight title at Nov. 12’s UFC 205, McGregor made it clear that he had a plethora of options waiting for him, although it was also said that he likely wouldn’t fight until the spring due to the fact that he has a baby on the way.

On option that the brash Irishman discussed was the possibility of jumping up to welterweight and fighting 170-pound champion Tyron Woodley in hopes of winning a third title in a third different wait class.

Many have laughed McGregor’s talk of this possibility off, but his longtime coach John Kavanagh doesn’t agree with what the masses are saying:

“I don’t see why not,” Kavanagh said on The MMA Hour. “I don’t know. Maybe it won’t happen. We’ve got so many irons in the fire at this stage. But I don’t see what other people are saying, ‘There’s no way Conor can touch this guy.’ There is. No one is perfect. There’s openings there. Of course, he’s a bigger man, he’s got more power and you’ve gotta be super careful. But Conor trains with big guys like this. I see him do amazing things in the gym all the time.”

The two fighters appeared to have some tension between them during the lead-up to UFC 205 where Woodley also fought. In fact, “The Chosen One” said after the event that he would sign on to face the “Notorious” one.

Woodley would undoubtedly be the bigger man if the the bout were to actually materialize, but Kavanagh feels as if McGregor beating the 170-pound champion is very ‘doable’:

“He’s not enormous,” the coach said. “He’s not some Goliath man. He’s a little bit bigger. Conor would have reach on him, he would have technique on him in the striking, for sure. He’d have to of course deal with that power. … I certainly don’t in my head go, ‘Oh my God, no. We couldn’t possibly beat him.’ It’s a doable fight.”

Do you share Kavanagh’s view?

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Five Opponents With The Best Chance To Beat Conor McGregor

At this point, it seems as if Conor McGregor will always have doubters, but we’ve also learned that he often silences these doubters, and he did just that at Nov. 12’s UFC 205 when he scored a dominant knockout victory over Eddie Alvarez to become the first fighter in promotional history to hold two titles

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As always, McGregor now has a lot of options waiting for him, and it’s unclear what his next move will be, but we can take the time to speculate on how his future will play out. With that being said, let’s take a look at five potential opponents who could perhaps stop the motor-mouthed Irishman:

Khabib Nurmagomedov

Starting at lightweight, McGregor could potentially next defend his newly acquired 155-pound strap against undefeated top contender Khabib Nurmagomedov, and if he does, he may have his hands full.

“The Eagle” is the owner of an incredibly impressive 24-0 professional record that includes 8 knockouts and 8 submissions. He’s also 8-0 in the UFC.

The main reason why Nurmagomedov may have a strong chance to defeat McGregor is due to his world classing grappling skill set. The Russian is without question one of the best wrestlers in the UFC, and he has found success dragging his opponents to the mat where he is relentless with ground-and-pound and submission attempts. Wrestling has always appeared to be the “Notorious” one’s weak point.

On the contrary, however, Nurmagomedov has shown that he’s hittable, and if McGregor’s left hand lands, “The Eagle” could find himself in trouble.

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Quote: Khabib Will ‘Beat The Piss’ Out Of Conor McGregor

Undefeated UFC lightweight contender Khabib “The Eagle” Nurmagomedov scored a dominant submission victory over No. 6-ranked Michael Johnson at Nov. 12’s UFC 205, furthering his case for a title shot at 155-pound champ Conor McGregor, who won the title in the evening’s main event with a spectacular second round knockout over Eddie Alvarez. Nurmagomedov quickly

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Nurmagomedov quickly called out the Irishman after his win, but McGregor seemed less interested in the bout, and many feel as if “The Eagle” would be a bad match up for the “Notorious” one given the Russian’s decorated wrestling background.
In fact, longtime veteran Dan Henderson feels as if Nurmagomedov would ‘beat the piss’ out of McGregor:

“I think that kid that fought last weekend, I have trouble with his name, Magomedov, the Russian kid, that’s at 155 — I think he would definitely give Conor a huge problem,” Henderson said Friday on The Adam Carolla Show, referring to undefeated lightweight contender Khabib Nurmagomedov.

“I think he definitely would take him down and beat the piss out of him.”

Then speaking on the brash and outspoken McGregor, Henderson said that he doesn’t ‘dislike’ the Irish knockout artist, although he admits it took some time to get ‘onboard’:

“I don’t dislike him,” Henderson said of McGregor. “I think it took me a while to kinda get onboard with him, just to see a little bit more well-roundedness. He’s always shown that he’s got good hands, good kicks, but to see him against a couple different wrestlers that had good hands, it took me awhile to get onboard with him. I think Eddie just did not fight a smart fight whatsoever. He didn’t use his wrestling whatsoever.”

“Hendo” most recently battled it out with middleweight champion Michael Bisping at October’s UFC 204, but ultimately came up short and retired in the aftermath.

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Eddie Alvarez Has No One To Blame But Himself For UFC 205 Loss

Eddie Alvarez went into his blockbuster UFC 205 title defense against Conor McGregor with a specific game plan, but as he puts it, he did something ‘foolish’, and it cost him big time, as he was knocked out in the second round by McGregor. “I did something really foolish,” Alvarez told Chael Sonnen on a

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“I did something really foolish,” Alvarez told Chael Sonnen on a recent edition of the “You’re Welcome” podcast. “I f****d up big time.”

“The whole f****g plan, the whole plan of this whole fight, if we had to to sum up the whole plan it was go left and mostly wrestle,” Alvarez said. “Not wrestle all the time but go left and put him in wrestling exchanges and put him where he’s uncomfortable.”

Alvarez isn’t quite sure what caused him to stray away from his game plan, although it could’ve been one of the multiple big shots that the Irishman landed in the first round, but “The Silent Assasin” also admitted that he has ‘no clue’ what he was hit with:

“I don’t know if it was after I got hit that I kind of went into fight or flight mode,” Alvarez said. “But I got hit and I went right and I boxed, I did the opposite of my plan for eight minutes when the whole plan for two months in training was go left and mostly wrestle. … It might have landed on the back of my head. To he honest with you, that first shot, I had no clue what it was. I had no clue, and my butt was on the ground, and I remember in my head going ‘what the f*** was that?’ I have no clue what the shot that dropped me was but I think it was I threw and he threw at the same time.”

And what bothers the ex-champion most about his performance is that he has no one to put the blame on but himself:

“What bugs me about the whole thing is he didn’t do anything we didn’t prepare for, I have no one to blame but myself for that. That’s what kind of f***s me up about it and gets me angry, it would be easier if I could go back to my coach and be like ‘you son of a b*tch,’ you didn’t tell me this was going happen.’ We literally got ready for all this and there’s a difference between knowing and doing. We knew, but I didn’t execute.”

Do you agree with Alvarez’s assessment of his performance?

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