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Published 10:58 14 Apr 2018 BST
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"I've always fought champions; always fought the best guys in the world; and when I won my title, it was from the champion [Dos Anjos] and the guy that was number one. That is unlike the current thing that is going on, where you can fight No.8 [Kevin Lee] and be champion or fight No.11 [Iaquinta] and be champion. I actually fought the number one guy. "So I would like to fight for the title and become champion. It would actually be odd for guys ranked number three, two and one to fight each other these days and for a title to be on the line. I'm going to change the game up."https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhe96sxjb3w/?hl=en&taken-by=tonyfergusonxt Asked if he would next fight Tony Ferguson, who was recently stripped of his interim lightweight title, to determine a true No.1 contender for the winner of Nurmagomedov versus McGregor, Alvarez had an interesting reply:
"Yeah. That is most likely what is going to happen. "The problem with Tony is that that surgery [on his knee] looked bad. I thought that was a minor surgery but it looked like he got butchered... It looks like Conor is in pretty big [legal] trouble so I don't know if that Nurmagomedov fight is going to happen soon."Alvarez is obviously a fan of the Rocky series as he is calling on the UFC to book him, a plucky Philadelphi native, to take on an undefeated and seemingly infallible Russian. "In comes the dog," he remarked, "how great would that be? If he dies, he dies!"
Former UFC fighter shot dead while out for evening walk
It’s believed to have been a targeted attack. Former UFC fighter , Suman Mokhtarian, has been shot dead. The ex-MMA fight was shot in a ‘brazen’ and ‘targeted’ daylight attack while taking an early evening walk, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Mokhtarian was shot in the upper body and was unable to be revived by […]
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“I invite you and your whole team and family to Dagestan.” Derry’s Paul Hughes suffered the second MMA defeat of his career in Dubai on Saturday. Usman Nurmagomedov’s Bellator Lightweight World Championship belt was on the line in what was the top-billed fight in the PFL Champions Series 1 event. Hughes was a big underdog […]
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