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Eddie Alvarez on Conor McGregor: ‘He’s not a championship fighter’
- Updated: May 1, 2016
Eddie Alvarez isn’t aboard the Conor McGregor hype train.
Even before Nate Diaz gave McGregor his first loss inside the UFC Octagon March 5 at UFC 196, Alvarez wasn’t shy about letting the world know he saw obvious, glaring holes in the Irish fighter’s game.
When Diaz cranked the volume in Round 2 of his UFC 196 affair and eventually submitted McGregor, many thought that was the game plan Alvarez spoke of. Chatting with Ariel Helwani on last Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, though, Alvarez said there’s still another, even easier way to defeat McGregor inside the cage.
“That wasn’t the secret I was talking about,” Alvarez told Helwani. “The secret I was talking about is just taking the guy down, dumping him on his head, and then submitting him.”
The primary struggle for McGregor in that fight, Alvarez believes, was Diaz’s …
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