{"id":113585,"date":"2014-09-26T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=113585"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:24:16","slug":"fighters-predict-ufc-178-cerrone-vs-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/fighters-predict-ufc-178-cerrone-vs-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters Predict UFC 178 Cerrone vs. Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cerrone-WINS.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cerrone-WINS.png\" alt=\"Cerrone WINS\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cerrone-WINS.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cerrone-WINS-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cerrone-WINS-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFC 178 takes place tomorrow night, and one of the many high-profile bouts for the event takes place in the co-main event between Donald Cerrone and Eddie Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/09\/who-ya-got-fighters-predict-eddie-alvarez-vs-donald-cerrone-at-ufc-178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie <\/a>caught up with some of the stars of the event to give their picks for who takes the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Dominick Cruz: We like Alvarez because he can mix in the wrestling, and that is something Cerrone has shown a weakness to in the past, but now its not really a weakness, and even if you do take him down he&#8217;s evolved his JiuJitsu to where he&#8217;s not just going for a submission to finish you, because he&#8217;ll go for a submission to finish you, and if he doesn&#8217;t get it he knows when to bail and to use that submission attempt to get back to his feet.  Thats a huge thing in this game to be able to know when to bail, and when to go for the finish and Cerrone&#8217;s fine tuned his game and he knows what he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lee: I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve been a Cowboy fan for a long time, since he beat Jamie Varner in the WEC, I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of him. So I kind of got to stick with Cowboy, I&#8217;m a fan of his so I think he&#8217;ll be able to get it, on the feet at least.<\/p>\n<p>Demetrious Johnson: Don Cerrone, he typically doesn&#8217;t get dropped or rocked a lot, he&#8217;ll get dropped, and get back up and work his range, and I think Donald Cerrone is starting to come into his own, he&#8217;s fighting more often. I think he&#8217;s a fighter that gets better when he fights more often, so I&#8217;m going to have to go with Donald Cerrone in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gibson:  I got Cerrone man, I like Alvarez too. I think it&#8217;s going to be a crazy fight.  I just think that Alvarez leaves too many openings in his game, he&#8217;s willing to take punishment in order to dish it out and as we&#8217;ve seen in the past 4 performances from Cowboy you cant take punishment from that guy, one liver kick or one shin to the face and its over.  So Alvarez might surprise me, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if I was wrong, but if I had to put money on it I&#8217;d put money on Cerrone.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Kennedy: You know you can&#8217;t describe whatever &#8216;it&#8217; is, but Cowboy has it, he has it&#8230;he is the showtime main event, highlight reel finisher, he does it in the cage, in the octagon, and he does it in the gym, he&#8217;s just built that way.  It&#8217;s a pleasure to be a teammate of his, and it&#8217;s fun to watch, so as a fan and a teammate of his, I&#8217;m going to be choosing Cerrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 178 takes place tomorrow night, and one of the many high-profile bouts for the event takes place in the co-main event between Donald Cerrone and Eddie Alvarez. MMAJunkie caught up with some of the stars of the event to give their picks for who takes the fight. 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