Alvarez: There’s a ‘simple way’ to beat McGregor
Eddie Alvarez: “There’s a simple way to win against this guy and nobody seems to be doing it. It’s really frustrating to watch.”
Eddie Alvarez hadn’t put much thought into fighting Conor McGregor when he was a featherweight, but now that McGregor has moved up to lightweight, he has started to think about a fight with McGregor and how he believes that Irishman can be beaten:
“For me, it’s a very simple fight for RDA to win, but he needs to implement a ground attack. If he don’t, I honestly feel like he can get knocked out, just like the other guys Conor was able to knock out. But he can’t allow it to be mostly of a striking,” Alvarez said on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour.
“I hate when guys who are from a BJJ background and a good wrestling background abandon their whole base and their whole fundamental because a lot of guys around them are telling them that they’re really good strikers. I hope RDA doesn’t do that. I hope he sticks to what he’s good at and wins the fight in a dominant fashion the way he can, the way I feel like a lot of guys can that aren’t doing it against Conor.”
More than that, though, Alvarez said attacking McGregor on the ground isn’t merely the better route to victory, but an easy path.
“There’s a simple way to win against this guy and nobody seems to be doing it. It’s really frustrating to watch,” he said.
