{"id":98367,"date":"2014-05-22T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=98367"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:37:47","slug":"alvarez-wants-brooks-over-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/alvarez-wants-brooks-over-chandler\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarez Wants Brooks Over Chandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/quick-twitt-eddie-alvarez-apologizes-for-dissing-bellators-interim-strap\/screen-shot-2014-05-13-at-2-04-44-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97268\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97268\" title=\"Eddie Alvarez PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-13-at-2.04.44-PM-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For the record, I&#8217;ve never, ever picked an opponent. I&#8217;ve always had my opponents selected for me by the promotion. I&#8217;ve never had a preference. I was simply told who I was fighting, and I fought them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to be clear on this, whatever was written into my contract, was written by Bellator. I made no changes at all to the contract. If it says that I have to fight Mike Chandler again, that&#8217;s because Bellator wants it that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think it&#8217;s only fair and right, just in the way things should go in a promotion, for me to fight Will Brooks. To me, that&#8217;s the right way to go. I don&#8217;t want to be a part of this whole debacle. It&#8217;s very messy, and it just doesn&#8217;t feel right that a guy has an interim belt, yet I&#8217;m supposed to fight another guy coming off a loss to the guy with the interim belt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Will Brooks should be the guy they put me in front of for my next fight. Just know that whoever is picked, whoever I end up fighting, it was never my decision. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you any differently, it&#8217;s not my decision and it never was.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2014\/5\/22\/5740906\/eddie-alvarez-if-i-have-to-fight-chandler-again-its-because-bellator-wants-it-that-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steph Daniels of Bloodyelbow.com<\/a>, Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez cleared the air on who he wants to fight next.<\/p>\n<p>Think it&#8217;s the right move?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the record, I&#8217;ve never, ever picked an opponent. I&#8217;ve always had my opponents selected for me by the promotion. I&#8217;ve never had a preference. I was simply told who I was fighting, and I fought them. I want to be clear on this, whatever was written into my contract, was written by Bellator. 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