Eddie Alvarez vs. Jeremy Stephens: A Welterweight Showdown

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00:00Of course, it was headlined by the welterweight battle

00:02between Eddie Alvarez, the underground king,

00:04Philly's own against Jeremy Little Heath and Stevens.

00:07Both these guys, long-time MMA fighters.

00:10Eddie Alvarez, of course, in Bellator,

00:11and then the UFC, former UFC champ.

00:13Stevens is a long-time UFC fighter,

00:15never got the championship, but, you know,

00:17had a long career there, and then both these guys,

00:19you know, in the BKFC for a couple fights now.

00:22Stevens with some impressive wins lately,

00:24getting the chance to take out Eddie Alvarez

00:25after he was just, you know,

00:28just bashing the Philadelphia Faithful

00:30up and down from the time this fight was made.

00:32Just doing what he could at the press conference,

00:34saying they're a city of losers,

00:35although now, of course, they're in the Super Bowl.

00:37Also saying that, you know, they are a, you know,

00:39they have guys like Eddie Alvarez

00:41who are just gonna lose all the time,

00:43and he's giving away front-row seats

00:44to watch Eddie Alvarez get beat.

00:46Did not sit well with Alvarez,

00:47and I thought that that would fuel him.

00:49And you know what? It definitely fueled him,

00:51but just not enough.

00:52The body did not hold up enough

00:54for the underground king, unfortunately,

00:56as he was feeling out early.

00:58You know, round one, both these guys

00:59were throwing some good shots,

01:00but nobody landing a ton there.

01:02I thought that Alvarez was a little more aggressive

01:03coming forward.

01:04I thought he landed more than Stevens did early on,

01:07so I gave him the 10-9 first round.

01:09Second round, again, Alvarez was doing more coming forward.

01:12They were trading some big shots here and there.

01:14It was more of Alvarez's volume versus Stevens' power,

01:17depending on how you want to score that as a judge.

01:20Well, it seemed like the power was the one that won out,

01:22because at some point, I believe in that second round,

01:25from what I saw, probably about 40 seconds in

01:27in the big exchange they had,

01:28there was a big shot landed on Alvarez.

01:31And he didn't go down.

01:32He didn't even, you know, shake.

01:34Didn't even have any issue with it,

01:36but his mouth was open.

01:38You can see, you know, and it's not like

01:39his mouth wasn't open, heavy breathing.

01:41Sometimes you can't close it

01:43after you get a big shot like that.

01:44As we found out later on,

01:47even though I thought Alvarez won the round,

01:49then in the corner still with the mouth wide open,

01:51the third round, again, Alvarez was coming forward

01:53trying to, you know, get in there against Stevens,

01:56and Stevens is landing some big shots.

01:57Actually got some knockdowns there against Alvarez.

02:00Two knockdowns.

02:02Alvarez gets back up, because he's really tough.

02:04He's a tough dude, not gonna give up.

02:06You're gonna have to take him out on his shield.

02:08Well, in the corner in the third round,

02:10after the third round, before the fourth,

02:11his corner is the one that said,

02:12you know what, no mas, no more.

02:14And we find out later on, you can go on social media

02:16and see Eddie Alvarez post that.

02:20Apparently, during that second round,

02:22that jaw got broken.

02:23There's a big fracture there.

02:24You can see the scans he put up there to prove.

02:26It's like, I tried to fight through it,

02:27but he landed the kill shot,

02:29and I was not able to continue.

02:30So, great job for him.

02:32Stevens was taunting the crowd afterwards, of course,

02:34continuing with it all,

02:35continuing with the bad guy mentality.

02:38Even was talking to McGregor and Dave Feldman saying,

02:42time to get paid, give me a big fight.

02:44Well, Conor McGregor got in there afterwards

02:46and said he wants that fight.

02:47He said, book it to Feldman.

02:49Told Feldman before he went to the press conference again,

02:51I want that fight.

02:52We'll see if that's gonna happen.

02:53Obviously, Conor's still under contract with the UFC,

02:55even though he's a BKFC owner.

02:57And already had a boxing fight,

02:58Knicks against the Paul brothers.

03:01So, I don't know if the BKFC and the UFC

03:03are gonna be able to come together on that one.

03:05Of course, they're talking about, you know,

03:06trying to get some other fights going,

03:07but I don't know if that'll be one they'll do.

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