{"id":325712,"date":"2019-09-19T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325712"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T17:21:00","slug":"eddie-alvarez-shares-strategy-for-beating-khabib-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/eddie-alvarez-shares-strategy-for-beating-khabib-nurmagomedov\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Alvarez shares strategy for beating Khabib Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov looks more and more unbeatable every time he fights \u2014 that includes his recent submission victory over Dustin Poirier. That being said, former UFC lightweight champion and current ONE Championship star Eddie Alvarez believes Nurmagomedov can be beaten. It will just take a fighter with the right style to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez believes he has that style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to take a certain style, and if you don\u2019t have that style, there\u2019s a certain style you have to implement to beat him, and I feel like I can implement that style the best in this division, and I don\u2019t know who else could,\u201d Alvarez told<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/eddie-alvarez-best-style-to-beat-khabib-nurmagomedov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cWhen I think about the other competition and the top 10 in the UFC, and the other guys around, I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re able to implement the type of fight that you have to do to beat Khabib.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what exactly is the key to beating Khabib Nurmagomedov? According to Alvarez, it&#8217;ll take a performance not unlike his victory over Michael Chandler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most I can say is I\u2019ve done it before,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cIf you watch the second Michael Chandler fight, and you watch a fight like that where you have a guy who just throws a big punch, tries to run you to the cage, tries to rip you to the ground, and pound you out on the ground, it\u2019s like that\u2019s the style you have to implement on a guy like that to beat him. You can\u2019t stand in front of him. You\u2019ve got to be able to move laterally. You\u2019ve got to be able to shut down his wrestling, and when you do get into wrestling exchanges, you can\u2019t be dominated. You\u2019ve got to have another wrestler who can match his wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Alvarez doesn&#8217;t actually buy Khabib Nurmagomedov as a completely undefeated fighter. He reminds that the reigning champ won a very controversial decision against Gleison Tibau in 2012 \u2014 a decision many fans should feel should have gone the other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t necessarily see Khabib as undefeated,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cI think Gleison Tibau beat Khabib. When I watch that fight back, I feel like Gleison beat him, so there is a style out there, and there is a way to beat him, but right now he\u2019s the champ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this assessment from Eddie Alvarez?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/19\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov looks more and more unbeatable every time he fights \u2014 that includes his recent submission victory over Dustin Poirier. That being said, former UFC lightweight champion and current ONE Championship star Eddie Alvarez believes Nurmagomedov can be beaten. It will just take a fighter with the right style to pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":325448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10211,10114,19776,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Alvarez shares strategy for beating Khabib Nurmagomedov | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez discusses the formula required to defeat reigning UFC lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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