{"id":49039,"date":"2013-01-04T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=49039"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:22:19","slug":"eddie-alvarez-losing-his-cool-over-ufc-bellatory-negotations-mma-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/eddie-alvarez-losing-his-cool-over-ufc-bellatory-negotations-mma-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Alvarez Losing His Cool Over UFC \/ Bellator Negotations | MMA NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/eddie-alvarez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/eddie-alvarez.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eddie alvarez\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/eddie-alvarez.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/eddie-alvarez-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/eddie-alvarez-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t been following along, top free agent, Eddie Alvarez is in contract limbo waiting to make the move to the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellator organization is doing what they can to halt that move. <\/p>\n<p>Little is known about what is going on behind the scenes, but reports have been that Bellator matched a UFC bid which could keep the lightweight star under the promotional banner he wants to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Eddie recently stated via his official twitter account. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/113.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/113.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"1\" width=\"408\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/113.png 408w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/113-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/113-390x213.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been following along, top free agent, Eddie Alvarez is in contract limbo waiting to make the move to the UFC. The Bellator organization is doing what they can to halt that move. Little is known about what is going on behind the scenes, but reports have been that Bellator matched a UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":49042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,2681],"tags":[10040,126,309,11,649,15,16],"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 Losing His Cool Over UFC \/ Bellator Negotations | MMA NEWS | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/eddie-alvarez-losing-his-cool-over-ufc-bellatory-negotations-mma-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Alvarez Losing His Cool Over UFC \/ Bellator Negotations | MMA NEWS | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you haven&#8217;t been following along, top free agent, Eddie Alvarez is in contract limbo waiting to make the move to the UFC. 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