Olivier Busquet Pummels JC Alvarado in TKO Win

Olivier Busquet used a rain of vicious ground-and-pound strikes to mash JC Alvarado’s face, vanquishing his opponent with a corner stoppage at the end of the third round in their highly anticipated mixed martial arts clash.

The bout, which was agreed upon shortly after Busquet put out a challenge to the poker world on Twitter in September 2015, commenced after six months of training. Busquet was coming in as the bigger man, agreeing to a fight weight of 187.5, while Alvarado had to make 165.

Nonetheless, according to the terms of the scrap, Alvarado was coming in as the favorite as he put up $150,000 against Busquet’s $120,000. Busquet was a novice with no formal training, while Alvarado had been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a key discipline of MMA, off and on since 2011.

Betting markets, though, saw a very evenly matched fight by the time the men headed for the cage. Betting website Pinnacle had a line up shortly before fight time that lined Alvarado at about -115 while Busquet was at about -105, meaning the market pegged Alvarado’s win probability at about 54 percent.

The stream of the fight never got off the ground, so the following recap comes from watching smartphone-quality streams — but hat tip to PokerNews’ own Sarah Herring for her effort in streaming the fight from her phone and giving the …

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