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Video: UFC Fight Night 90: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez Weigh-Ins

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On Wednesday, the official pre-fight festivities surrounding the three International Fight Week events will kick off with the weigh-ins for Thursday’s UFC Fight Night 90 event.

UFN 90 will air live, exclusively on UFC…

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On Wednesday, the official pre-fight festivities surrounding the three International Fight Week events will kick off with the weigh-ins for Thursday’s UFC Fight Night 90 event.

UFN 90 will air live, exclusively on UFC Fight Pass from Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday, July 7th, featuring a main event of Rafael dos Anjos vs. Eddie Alvarez for the UFC Lightweight Championship.

Embedded above is the video archive of Wednesday’s official UFN 90 weigh-ins, where the following fighters tipped the scales for tomorrow night’s UFC Fight Night 90 event.

UFC Fight Night 90 Main Card (UFC Fight Pass at 10 p.m. ET)
– Rafael dos Anjos (155) vs. Eddie Alvarez (155)
– Roy Nelson (263) vs. Derrick Lewis (265.5)
– Alan Jouban (170) vs. Belal Muhammad (170)
– Joseph Duffy (155.5) vs. Mitch Clarke (155.5)

UFC Fight Night 90 Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass at 6:30 p.m. ET)
– Mike Pyle (170.5) vs. Alberto Mina (171)
– John Makdessi (155) vs. Mehdi Baghdad (155.5)
– Anthony Birchak (135.5) vs. Dileno Lopes (135)
– Russell Doane (135.5) vs. Pedro Munhoz (135)
– Felipe Arantes (136) vs. Jerrod Sanders (136)
– Gilbert Burns (155) vs. Lukasz Sajewski (156)
– Marco Beltran (136) vs. Reginaldo Vieira (134.5)
– Vicente Luque (170) vs. Alvaro Herrera (171)

Roy Nelson Gives His Thoughts On Stipe Miocic-Alistair Overeem Title-Fight

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Roy Nelson has shared the Octagon with both UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and title challenger Alistair Overeem.

While those two meet at UFC 203 later this year, Nelson is focused in on taking out Derrick Lewis at UFC Fight Night 90 this week before a possible rematch with either Miocic or Overeem.

The 40-year-old Nelson dropped a 2015 decision to Overeem and was bested – also via decision – by the hands of Miocic in 2013.

“Alistair’s not his old self,” said Nelson following open workouts recently (thanks to MMAjunkie for the quotes). “He’s an athlete now. Stipe’s an athlete. They’re not that old-school fighter where they’re really trying to knock you out. They’re trying to play that little (game). You got to watch that because they’re heavyweights and there’s that one punch. I would probably give it to Stipe because he’s a better athlete.”

Nelson (21-12) is coming off a February win over Jared Rosholt.

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Roy Nelson has shared the Octagon with both UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and title challenger Alistair Overeem.

While those two meet at UFC 203 later this year, Nelson is focused in on taking out Derrick Lewis at UFC Fight Night 90 this week before a possible rematch with either Miocic or Overeem.

The 40-year-old Nelson dropped a 2015 decision to Overeem and was bested – also via decision – by the hands of Miocic in 2013.

“Alistair’s not his old self,” said Nelson following open workouts recently (thanks to MMAjunkie for the quotes). “He’s an athlete now. Stipe’s an athlete. They’re not that old-school fighter where they’re really trying to knock you out. They’re trying to play that little (game). You got to watch that because they’re heavyweights and there’s that one punch. I would probably give it to Stipe because he’s a better athlete.”

Nelson (21-12) is coming off a February win over Jared Rosholt.

Rafael Dos Anjos: Eddie Alvarez Doesn’t Like To Get Hit

Reigning UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has gone on a tear in recent years, and will look to make the second defense of his 155-pound strap against Eddie Alvarez this Thursday (July 7, 2016) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The lightweight division has never been too forgiving towards its champions, and as the first Brazilian

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Reigning UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has gone on a tear in recent years, and will look to make the second defense of his 155-pound strap against Eddie Alvarez this Thursday (July 7, 2016) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The lightweight division has never been too forgiving towards its champions, and as the first Brazilian 155-pound title holder, dos Anjos has his eyes set on securing the most title defenses in divisional history:

“I’m looking to make history. Right now, I already made history because I’m the first Brazilian champion (at lightweight), first non-American. Now I’m looking forward to having the most title defenses. One more title defense and a lot more still to come,” dos Anjos told FOX Sports.

Dos Anjos will look to take the next step in his title reign when he faces off with the tough and gritty Alvarez later this week. The Philadelphia-born challenger has compiled back-to-back victories over the likes of Gilbert Melendez and Anthony Pettis, but dos Anos, who’s coming off of a 66-second demolition of Donald Cerrone, remains confident:

“I have confidence on it. I know I’ve got heavy hands and I think it will not be fun for him to come into this kind of fight with me,” dos Anjos said. “As you can see, he just knows how to fight like that. He gets hit a lot and he doesn’t like to get hit. Actually nobody likes that, I don’t like it either. I’m so confident in my hands, in my jiu-jitsu, in my wresting, I feel like I have 25 minutes to finish this fight.

“I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid. I’m going to go there like I did with Cerrone. I knew I had 25 minutes to win the fight, but I’m smart enough to see the gaps and see the opportunity to finish the fight.”

Do you see the Brazilian continuing his reign as champion at UFC Fight Night 90?

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Rafael Dos Anjos: Eddie Alvarez Doesn’t Like To Get Hit

Reigning UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has gone on a tear in recent years, and will look to make the second defense of his 155-pound strap against Eddie Alvarez this Thursday (July 7, 2016) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The lightweight division has never been too forgiving towards its champions, and as the first Brazilian

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Reigning UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has gone on a tear in recent years, and will look to make the second defense of his 155-pound strap against Eddie Alvarez this Thursday (July 7, 2016) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The lightweight division has never been too forgiving towards its champions, and as the first Brazilian 155-pound title holder, dos Anjos has his eyes set on securing the most title defenses in divisional history:

“I’m looking to make history. Right now, I already made history because I’m the first Brazilian champion (at lightweight), first non-American. Now I’m looking forward to having the most title defenses. One more title defense and a lot more still to come,” dos Anjos told FOX Sports.

Dos Anjos will look to take the next step in his title reign when he faces off with the tough and gritty Alvarez later this week. The Philadelphia-born challenger has compiled back-to-back victories over the likes of Gilbert Melendez and Anthony Pettis, but dos Anos, who’s coming off of a 66-second demolition of Donald Cerrone, remains confident:

“I have confidence on it. I know I’ve got heavy hands and I think it will not be fun for him to come into this kind of fight with me,” dos Anjos said. “As you can see, he just knows how to fight like that. He gets hit a lot and he doesn’t like to get hit. Actually nobody likes that, I don’t like it either. I’m so confident in my hands, in my jiu-jitsu, in my wresting, I feel like I have 25 minutes to finish this fight.

“I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid. I’m going to go there like I did with Cerrone. I knew I had 25 minutes to win the fight, but I’m smart enough to see the gaps and see the opportunity to finish the fight.”

Do you see the Brazilian continuing his reign as champion at UFC Fight Night 90?

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Eddie Alvarez: I’ll Knock Out Rafael Dos Anjos At UFC Fight Night 90

There were a lot of questions when former Bellator champion Eddie Alvarez left the promotion and joined the UFC. Alvarez has lived up the hype as he has won all of his UFC fights except a fight with Donald Cerrone. His success to win and make fights exciting has launched him into the title picture

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There were a lot of questions when former Bellator champion Eddie Alvarez left the promotion and joined the UFC. Alvarez has lived up the hype as he has won all of his UFC fights except a fight with Donald Cerrone. His success to win and make fights exciting has launched him into the title picture in the UFC. Now, Alvarez has a shot to capture UFC gold when he fights UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos at UFC Fight Night 90 next Thursday.

While on Tuesday’s media conference call, Alvarez spoke about the fight and feels that he can finish dos Anjos because of his high finishing ratio.

“I have a high finishing ratio and I feel like, if [dos Anjos] feels confident in his stand-up, then it could hurt him,” Alvarez said. “I feel like I can catch him if he gets over-aggressive and it can go bad quickly. So this is going to be highly explosive, violent from the very beginning.

“Everybody has weaknesses, everybody has holes,” Alvarez added. “I’m not the thinker in this equation. Mark Henry does all the thinking for me. I’m the performer. I just go out and fight, and Mark has found every hole, every weakness that Rafael has, and he has helped me move in ways that exploit everything that we need to get the win and come home with that gold belt. I’m going to attribute a lot of this to the brains of Mark Henry.”

When asked about having pressure on himself going into the fight, Alvarez went back to champion mindset and stated that this is not his first rodeo in a championship fight.

“There’s always pressure, but pressure is really about me putting the pressure on myself to perform at my peak, so I know how to go out there an do well,” Alvarez said. “It’s really about just going out there and performing like I do everyday in sparring and putting my best out there. When I do that, I beat everyone I fight. I beat champions my whole career.”

UFC Fight Night 90 takes place from Las Vegas, Nevada on July 7th and the event will air on UFC Fight Pass.

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Video: Joe Rogan Breaks Down Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Eddie Alvarez Title Fight At UFN 90

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One of the underappreciated gems of UFC’s upcoming loaded International Fight Week next week, which will see three events in three days in Las Vegas, Nevada, UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos will look to defend …

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One of the underappreciated gems of UFC’s upcoming loaded International Fight Week next week, which will see three events in three days in Las Vegas, Nevada, UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos will look to defend his title against former Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez.

Featured above is a new video released by the UFC on Friday which features longtime commentator and analyst Joe Rogan breaking down the Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez bout, which serves as the main event for UFC Fight Night 90.

The Dos Anjos-Alvarez headlined UFC Fight Night 90 event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, July 7, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will air live on FOX Sports 1 (FS1).