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For the last few weeks, eighth-ranked UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa has been angling for a fight with former champ Eddie Alvarez<\/a>. Unfortunately for Chiesa and his fans, Alvarez has been pencilled in for a bout with Dustin Poirier. The two will meet at UFC 211 on May 13 in Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday’s edition of BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, Chiesa vented his frustrations about this booking to host Kinch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know honestly, I wasn\u2019t surprised [Alvarez took the fight with Poirier],\u201d Chiesa said. \u201cStylistically, that\u2019s probably an easier fight for him, so I don\u2019t blame him. It\u2019s just frustrating when he goes back on a lot of the things he said. When he was on Ariel [Helwani\u2019s] show, he talked about how fighting me is too big of a step in the backwards direction, yet now he\u2019s fighting a guy that\u2019s ranked lower than me. And I\u2019m on a win-streak, I\u2019ve won my last three, five of my last six, my last two fights I got bonuses\u2026 I mean, it\u2019s just like, you don\u2019t have to come out to the people and tell them you don\u2019t want to fight me because it\u2019s a bad matchup and you know you\u2019re going to lose, but you don\u2019t gotta lie to the people and be fraudulent either.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just frustrating when his way of getting out of an explanation is just act like I\u2019m some nobody,\u201d Chiesa continued. \u201cBut I shouldn\u2019t even be frustrated about it. I should be flattered that a former champ is dodging a fight with me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

The appeal of a bout with Alvarez, Chiesa added, was not that it was an easy matchup, but instead that it was a logical one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t look at Eddie as an easy fight, I just looked at it as a logical fight,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m coming off a long injury layoff, he\u2019s coming off a loss. The last fight I was scheduled for, I was supposed to fight [Tony] Ferguson when he was ranked third in the world and Eddie is ranked third right now, so why don\u2019t I just fight that guy? In my opinion it\u2019s what made sense.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, Chiesa wasn’t the only one hoping Alvarez would bite the hook either. According to the streaking lightweight the UFC was also hoping to put this fight together.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the UFC was pushing for it,” he said. “I can\u2019t have anybody go on statement and document that but they were lobbying. To my understanding, they made it clear to [Alvarez], \u2018Hey, these are your options, but we\u2019d like the Michael Chiesa fight.\u2019 But whatever\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would you have preferred to see Michael Chiesa get a fight with Eddie Alvarez over Dustin Poirier? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 3\/9\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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