Eddie Alvarez förlorade senast sin UFC-debut, då han besegrades av Donald ”Cowboy”Cerrone via ett enhälligt domslut vid UFC 178. Inte mycket har hörts från Eddie sedan förlusten, då han behövt tid att reflektera efter matchen.
Här kan ni läsa vad Alvarez hade att säga om mötet och tiden efter, via ”The MMA Hour”:
I’ve just been keeping away from Twitter. I apologize to my fans. I apologize to everyone. I haven’t talked much or did anything, but I needed a little bit of time after the fight. That’s all. I put a lot into this. I put a lot of sacrifice into it. I moved my family from Philadelphia to Florida. I put a lot of people through a lot of sacrifices. For me to go out there and be anything but perfect, I get angry if I’m not. I made a couple of mistake during the fight. I wasn’t able to compete the way I wanted to compete. I came up short. It definitely wasn’t the night and it wasn’t the stage to do it on. I was angry. I’m still angry. I’ll get it figured out. There’s a couple of small adjustments that need to be made. I’ll make them adjustments and I’ll win my next one, for sure.
I think I fought the first round well. Let me just say Cerrone did a good job of figuring some things out and sticking to his game plan. He did a better job than I did of executing that night. That’s what I’m most mad about. Usually I’m the one who’s able to execute. I’m the one who’s able to go out there and enforce my plan and he did a better job than I did. My hat’s off to him. He did a good job, real good job.
Pressure’s not something I deal with anymore in my career. It’s not an issue for me. If anything, I need to get myself a little more excited, get myself pumped up, slap myself a little bit, and get myself in the fight. Sometimes I need to take a punch or two just to get myself excited and let myself know that I’m in the fight. It wasn’t anything that the fans are going to say on Twitter. Oh, maybe I looked past him or maybe I had the jitters. It really wasn’t. It was a matter of, I went out there and I didn’t execute and he did. He did a good job doing it. Some nights are yours and some nights aren’t. It’s that simple. I don’t think we need to make it any more complicated than that.
I’m OK with losing, man. I lose like every three years or so. Every three years I take a loss and then I go on a tear for the next three years. I understand you can’t win all the time. Sometimes it’s important to see the other side so you take winning for granted.
Härnäst kommer Eddie att kliva in i oktagonen för att ta sig an föredetta lättviktsmästaren Benson Henderson, då de möts vid ”UFC: Fight Night 59” i Boston den 18 januari.
