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Coach: Eddie Alvarez Goes To Sleep At UFC 205

Knockout machine and UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor will attempt to punch his way towards a second title at November 12’s UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden in New York when he takes on reigning 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez. After two fights at welterweight against Nate Diaz, the 145-pound titleholder will look to become the

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Although he did note that McGregor will have to prepare for Alvarez’s wrestling, Roddy said on a recent edition of Submission Radio that it’ll only be ‘a matter of time before Alvarez goes to sleep’:

“I honestly never really change my prediction because I see what Conor does day in, day out in the gym. I see how clean his striking is and I see how powerful he is. And I honestly think Alvarez has been dropped a few times and stuff like that. So I mean, that’s not good knowing when you’re going in to fight Conor McGregor. If you’ve been dropped before and you’re going in fighting Conor McGregor, there’s a very, very high chance that you’re going to be dropped again. Alvarez is a great wrestler, so there will be things we’ll be working on with Conor to make sure that Alvarez can’t keep a hold of him, can’t keep him against the fence, but Conor’s gonna land and I think it’s going to be a matter of time before Alvarez goes to sleep to be totally honest.”

McGregor himself also predicted a first round finish over “The Silent Assassin” at last week’s press conference.

As far as the striking department goes, McGregor may indeed hold the advantage over Alvarez, who’s coming off of a brutal stoppage victory over Rafael dos Anjos last July. The Irishman, however, has suffered all three of his career losses by way of submission which could boost Alvarez’s confidence as the champion likely has the superior grappling.

In the end, styles make fights, and this ‘super fight’ should prove to be an exciting contest.

Who do you see taking home lightweight gold next month?

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Jose Aldo Reacts To Long-Brewing Dissatisfaction With UFC

Heading into 2015, Jose Aldo was the UFC featherweight champion, the only 145-pound champion in the promotion’s history, and he had been undefeated for nearly 10 years. Then, however, he was matched up with outspoken superstar Conor McGregor. The two were scheduled to meet at UFC 189 in July 2015, but Aldo was forced to

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The two were scheduled to meet at UFC 189 in July 2015, but Aldo was forced to withdraw from the bout just weeks before after suffering an injury. When the two finally did meet at December 2015’s UFC 194, “Scarface’s” reign came crashing down as he was brutally knocked out by McGregor in just 13 seconds.

In the aftermath of the bout, Aldo made it clear that he wanted an immediate rematch, but the “Notorious” one went on to take two fights at welterweight against Nate Diaz. The Brazilian, on the other hand, fought and beat Frankie Edgar at July 9’s UFC 200 for the interim featherweight title. With this win, Aldo was promised a rematch with McGregor, but once again, the Irishman had different plans.

Earlier this week it was announced that McGregor would be facing lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at November 12’s UFC 205, once again leaving Aldo in the dust. “Scarface”, obviously very unhappy with the situation, quickly responded by asking the UFC for his release.

Explaining his feelings to Yahoo! Sports recently, Aldo detailed his dissatisfaction with the UFC, saying that it has been ‘brewing’ for quite some time now:

“First of all, my dissatisfaction is not about not getting this fight with Conor McGregor,” Aldo said. “My dissatisfaction has been brewing for a long time. Before my loss to McGregor when I had to pull out of our first fight [scheduled for UFC 189 in July], I was not happy with the way the UFC spun my rib injury. I was not happy to see them mischaracterize my injury and not support me as I had to pull out of that fight.

“When I lost to Conor McGregor, I had been undefeated for nearly 10 years. I think if anybody deserved an immediate rematch, it was me against Conor in those circumstances. It was a quick fight. I got caught and the fans in the arena didn’t really get to see a full fight. I think that for everything I’d already achieved for the sport and my record, it was a rematch I deserved immediately and without a doubt.”

Aldo once again reiterated that his problem is not necessarily with McGregor, but rather with UFC President Dana White:

“Conor is not my issue,” Aldo said. “My issue is that I feel Dana is not in control any more. It’s a runaway train. Things have been promised and not delivered and he’s no longer in charge, no longer the boss.

“Frankly, it’s starting to feel like a circus with promises made and not kept. If that’s how it is going to be, I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”

While defending his title in a rematch with Aldo would appear to have made sense, McGregor clearly took the ‘money fight’, or the bigger fight, which is the super fight with Alvarez. After all, Aldo has been criticized before for his lack of finishes, and his unwillingness to sell a fight. On the marketing side, Aldo said that his style simply comes down to respect:

“I hear a lot of people say the reason I don’t call the shots and that I’m not happy with my income is that I don’t sell fights,” Aldo said. “People have said that to me and they’ve said it about me. I’ve heard people say, ‘Jose needs to be a better marketer; he needs to sell his fights more.’ But that’s not the philosophy I was raised with. My coach is a martial artist. I’m a martial artist. What we do starts with respect.

“Where the sport is going is not respectful. The people who are selling fights are people who are giving each other the middle finger, throwing objects at press conferences, getting caught snorting cocaine and making headlines for all kinds of wrong reasons. What I was taught and what I believe in is, I do my best inside the cage. I believe people want to watch me for my ability as an athlete. … If the direction the sport is going is you’ve got to make headlines for the wrong reasons in order to be worthy of respect and in order to be worthy of the right income, it’s not something I’ll ever be on board with.”

What do you make of Aldo’s comments and do you expect the former longtime title holder to pursue his requested release?

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Eddie Alvarez On UFC 205 Plan: I’ll Do Whatever The F*ck I Want

Featherweight champion Conor McGregor appeared quite confident at the UFC 205 press conference earlier this week regarding his upcoming lightweight title fight with 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez, saying that he’s going to knock out “The Silent Assassin” inside of one round. Alvarez, who’s coming of of a brutal first round stoppage victory over Rafael dos

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Alvarez, who’s coming of of a brutal first round stoppage victory over Rafael dos Anjos, is also confident in his chances against the Irishman, recently telling Talking Brawls podcast that he’s going to do ‘whatever the f*ck’ he wants ‘all f*cking night’:

“I’ll do whatever the f*ck I want in any aspect against him. The opponents he’s fought allow him to look great. That’s the issue,” he said. That’s what these WWF fans who follow him don’t see. They see a guy who’s fighting or playing to his strengths so he can do what he wants and be good at it. I’ll do whatever the fuck I want. If I want to stand, I’ll stand. He don’t move his head, he gets hit a ton. Chad Mendes has a tiny little reach and was popping him all over the place with overhand rights and left hooks before he took him down. His defense is atrocious. His offense is good. He’s offensively a good fighter when it comes to boxing and things but his defense is fucking terrible. A guy like me, I can go wherever. I can kick, I can punch, I can takedown, I can submit, and I can do it all f*cking night.”

Mendes, although ultimately falling to McGregor’s patented left hand in the second round of their July 2015 interim title bout, saw great success against the “Notorious” one in the opening round, using his wrestling and ground-and-pound to bloody McGregor’s face. Since that fight, McGregor has knocked out Jose Aldo and split wins and losses with Nate Diaz.

Stylistically, what do you make of UFC 205’s main event? Do you expect Alvarez to outclass McGregor, or will the “Notorious” one score another prolific knockout and add more gold to his trophy case?

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Donald Cerrone: Conor McGregor Turned Down Two Fights With Me

Former UFC lightweight title challenger and fan favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone has had his fair share of verbal battles with outspoken featherweight champion Conor McGregor, but he’s yet to get his chance against the Irishman, who will challenge lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205, inside the Octagon. That isn’t because the fight hasn’t been

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Recently speaking on the subject, “Cowboy” said that McGregor has turned down two fights with him:

“Someone please just shut this dude up,” Cerrone said of McGregor on the “Norton & Friends” show on Wednesday. “Last night [at the UFC 205 press conference] I was going to get on the horn and start getting after him but I decided not to because you talk about him, people not taking fights, he, two times I had the obligation to fight him and he turned down and took the easier fight.

“When he fought Diaz for the first time, I just fought. So it was Sunday, I was flying home, Dana calls and asked me if I’d like to fight Conor and that was for the Diaz first fight. And, he declined me and took Diaz cause Diaz was in Mexico you know, took the fight on 10 days notice or whatever. But, why would he want to fight me coming off a win? So yeah, my name was in the hat. Conor and his people didn’t pick me.”

It’s for this reason, that Cerrone isn’t a fan of McGregor’s iconic trash talk. He also accused the “Notorious” one of acting different when the cameras are off and away:

“I get annoyed when he wants to talk about he’s the ‘best in the world and I’ll fight anybody’ blah blah blah but when it comes time, like there’s a lot that people don’t know about right. Behind the scenes stuff but I know. I knew he’s like, ‘Yeah, no no no no,’ cause we were trying. And I didn’t even want to negotiate more money. I said, ‘F–k you let’s go. I’ll fight you for whatever.”

“This dude same thing like last night, he’s good at when cameras are on talking sh-t. You get him in the back he don’t say nothing. F–k no, I been in the back many times with him.”

What do you make of Cerrone’s comments?

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Aldo’s Coach To UFC: Let Him Leave!

After hearing the news that featherweight champion Conor McGregor would be fighting lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at November 12’s UFC 205 from New York yesterday, interim 145-pound titleholder Jose Aldo, one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, asked to be released from his UFC contract, and it looks as if he was quite

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Today (September 28, 2016), Aldo’s longtime head coach, Andre Pederneieras, said that the Brazilian may look to take the promotion to court:

“I think Dana and the new owners have to understand that there’s a completely unsatisfied employee who doesn’t want to continue,” Pederneiras said, according to MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz, translating from Portuguese. “If that was in Brazil and a guy said ‘Boss, I want to leave,’ I’d say ‘OK, I can’t hold you.’ The contract we have in the UFC, ‘Boss, I want to leave,’ the answer is ‘No, you’ll be stuck with me, you might not do anything, but you can’t leave here.’ Is that something nice?

“I think it creates dissatisfaction, and he will want to go to court. He would have to go to court to cut this contract. And the damage a dissatisfied person, someone like Aldo, talking s— to everyone about a lot of things, I think the company wouldn’t want a guy like this every day in the media talking trash. Since the guy doesn’t want to do it, let him leave! ‘I just want to leave, I don’t want to stay here anymore, I don’t want to fight here. I don’t want to be in anymore.’ We don’t want a war, we don’t want a fight, we don’t want to talk bad about anyone. We only want the right to say ‘I don’t want to be here anymore. It’s not about money, I don’t want to be here anymore.’”

After knocking out Aldo in just 13 seconds last December, McGregor took two fights at welterweight against Nate Diaz and will now fight Alvarez, making it obvious why Aldo is upset. Aside from that, fighter treatment has long been a growing issue within the UFC, and an issue that Aldo has often spoke about.

Do you expect to see “Scarface” actually leave the UFC?

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Conor McGregor Loves New York: I Run This Whole S***

After being submitted by Nate Diaz at last March’s UFC 196, outspoken featherweight champion Conor McGregor appeared to a bit calmer than his usual outlandish self in terms of verbal assaults and predictions. Then, however, he got his revenge on Diaz via majority decision at August 20’s UFC 202. And now, McGregor is right back

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Then, however, he got his revenge on Diaz via majority decision at August 20’s UFC 202. And now, McGregor is right back to work as it was announced last night (September 26, 2016) that the “Notorious” one will take on 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez in a bona fide super fight at arguably the promotion’s biggest card to date in UFC 205, which is scheduled for November 12, 2016 from New York.

Back into the win column, and set to take in what will likely be yet another massive pay day, McGregor has returned to form. Appearing at today’s (September 27, 2016) UFC 205 press conference, the featherweight champion continuously blasted “The Underground King”. And on top of that, “Mystic Mac” made one of his infamous predictions, also showing his love for the Empire State:

“Shut your f***ing mouth,” McGregor told Alvarez. “I love New York. I run this whole s**t. And Mystic Mac predicts I’m going to KO you inside of one round.”

The “Notorious” one has long said that being a two-weight world champion was his goal, and that competing at lightweight was a possibility. Now that he has the opportunity to do both, McGregor feels as if his biggest impact will finally be felt:

“I’m very happy with the 155-pound weight limit. I feel like with all the divisions I ran around and ran through, 155 I feel will be the one where I take over the most.”

Who do you see walking away with lightweight gold on the grandest stage of them all?

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