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 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.
