Tag: Eddie Alvarez

Video: BKFC 56 fight-week press conference faceoff highlights, with Christine Ferea and Bec Rawlings locked in

Christine Ferea and Bec Rawlings couldn’t take their eyes off each other before their rematch at BKFC 56.

The BKFC 56 fight-week news conference took place Thursday in American Fork, Utah and afterward, 12 fighters from six main-card bouts came face to face.

In the main event, former UFC standouts [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag] and [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] meet in a middleweight bout for the “King of Violence” title. And in the co-main event, champ [autotag]Christine Ferea[/autotag] defends her women’s flyweight title in a rematch with [autotag]Bec Rawlings[/autotag].

Two other title fights are on the main card: featherweight champ [autotag]Kai Stewart[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Howard Davis[/autotag]; and [autotag]Arnold Adams[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mick Terrill[/autotag] for the vacant heavyweight title. Another all-UFC bout takes place, as well, between [autotag]Jeremy Stephens[/autotag] and [autotag]Jimmie Rivera[/autotag].

Check out the video above to see those 10 combatants face off ahead of their bouts.

BKFC 56, one of the promotion’s biggest cards of the year, takes place Saturday at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City. The main card airs on FITE and the BKFC App.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for BKFC 56.

BKFC 56 video: Mike Perry, Eddie Alvarez go head to head (literally) during another tense faceoff

Watch Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez get a close look at each other for the first time during BKFC 56 fight week.

The BKFC 56 fight-week news conference took place Thursday in American Fork, Utah and afterward, [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag] and [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] got another close look at each other.

Former UFC standouts Perry and Alvarez will meet Saturday in a middleweight bout that headlines BKFC 56 at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City. The main card airs on FITE and the BKFC App. The Perry vs. Alvarez winner will claim BKFC’s “King of Violence” championship belt.

After verbally sparring yet again at Thursday’s news conference, Perry and Alvarez came together for their first faceoff of fight week. Although they didn’t trade punches like last time, Perry and Alvarez got all up in each other’s faces for a tense moment.

You can watch in the video above.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for BKFC 56.

Video: BKFC 56 fight-week press conference live stream

Watch the final news conference ahead of BKFC 56, which features 12 fighters, including headliners Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez.

The BKFC 56 fight-week news conference takes place Thursday, and you can watch a live stream of the festivities right here on MMA Junkie beginning at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT).

The news conference is set to go down at Bucked Up National Headquarters in American Fork, Utah with 12 fighters and BKFC president David Feldman expected to be in attendance. Former UFC champion [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] and former UFC standout [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag], who headline the event, will be there, as well as co-headliners [autotag]Ben Rothwell[/autotag] and [autotag]Todd Duffee[/autotag], both former UFC heavyweights. The event also features three championship bouts and another pair of former UFC standouts throwing down, [autotag]Jeremy Stephens[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jimmie Rivera[/autotag].

BKFC 56, one of the promotion’s biggest cards of the year, takes place Saturday at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City. The main card airs on FITE and the BKFC App.

You can watch the fight-week news conference in the video above.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for BKFC 56.

UFC veterans in MMA and bareknuckle boxing action Nov. 30-Dec. 2

Check out which veterans of the UFC are competing in combat sports across the globe this weekend.

This week, the UFC returns to The Lone Star State’s capitol.

UFC on ESPN 52 takes place at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas is headlined by a lightweight bout between [autotag]Beneil Dariush[/autotag] and [autotag]Arman Tsarukyan[/autotag].

Elsewhere, many other combat sports events are taking place that feature a number of familiar names that have competed under the UFC banner.

Check out which veterans of the global MMA leader are competing Nov. 30-Dec. 2.

Scroll below to see how the UFC veterans fared last week, and see the names and details of this weekend’s competitors.

Upcoming event information from Tapology.

Eddie Alvarez ahead of BKFC 56: Mike Perry ‘too slow, I’m going to hit him too much’

Eddie Alvarez expects his speed to be a problem for Mike Perry in the BKFC 56 headliner Saturday.

[autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] expects his speed to be a problem for [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag].

Alvarez meets Perry in the main event of BKFC 56 on Dec. 2 in Salt Lake City.

Perry has found success in the BKFC ring, going 3-0 with wins over Julian Lane, Michael Page, and most recently a second-round TKO of ex-UFC champ Luke Rockhold this past April. Alvarez thinks Perry’s toughness got him by in those fights, but says that’s an attribute he won’t outmatch him in.

“Mike’s tough as hell,” Alvarez told Middle Easy. “A lot of people say, ‘Mike don’t move his head … Mike don’t do this.’ He makes up for a lot of the lack of his stuff with his toughness, his grit, his will – that kind of stuff.

“He cleans it up with that. But when you’re going against another fighter like myself, who has all that, and all of them boxes are checked, then you’re going to have to rely on your skill and your game plan, and something more than just grit and will to get you by.”

One the same night Perry beat Rockhold, former Bellator and UFC lightweight champion Alvarez won a split decision over Chad Mendes in his bare-knuckle debut.

Alvarez plans on putting a beating on Perry until the referee waives the fight off.

“He’s too slow, I’m going to hit him too much,” Alvarez said. “I respect Mike Perry and what he does and his resilience, (but) I’m going to hit him too much, too often, too hard. If he don’t stop fighting, I think the ref’s going to stop him from fighting.”

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Eddie Alvarez says ‘the last thing’ Michael Chandler wants to do is fight him again

Eddie Alvarez doubts Michael Chandler is interested in completing their trilogy.

[autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] doubts [autotag]Michael Chandler[/autotag] is interested in completing their trilogy.

Alvarez, who meets Mike Perry in the main event of BKFC 56 on Dec. 2 in Salt Lake City, is open to an MMA return. He suggested a rubber match with Chandler potentially in the UFC, and Chandler seemed all for it.

Chandler is currently slated to welcome Conor McGregor back to the octagon in 2024, but Alvarez thinks he’s avoiding a rubber match with him.

“He’s interested in Conor,” Alvarez told Morning Kombat of Chandler. “The last thing that guy wants to do is fight me. I’ve been trying to fight him. Wherever I go, he goes later on.”

Alvarez and Chandler fought in two title-fight barnburners under the Bellator banner, with Chandler winning their first meeting in 2011 by fourth-round submission and Alvarez exacting his revenge two years later in a close fight.

Alvarez revealed he had a phone call with Chandler to discuss the possibility of a trilogy bout, which he says was received with enthusiasm at the time.

“I called Mike Chandler directly when we were both free agents, and I pitched him the idea of me and him walking in the office together and selling our third fight to every promotion and seeing who paid us the most,” Alvarez said. “I think that would have been the most beneficial for both of us. He agreed with me. He thought it was a great idea, and I never heard from him again.”

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Why Eddie Alvarez thinks Conor McGregor would thrive in bareknuckle boxing

Eddie Alvarez believes Conor McGregor would do well in bareknuckle boxing.

[autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] thinks UFC star [autotag]Conor McGregor[/autotag] would actually do well in the world of bareknuckle boxing.

Alvarez, a former UFC lightweight champion who lost his title to McGregor in 2016, sees plenty of potential in McGregor if he were to go down the bareknuckle boxing route. Alvarez debuted for BKFC this past April and defeated former UFC title challenger Chad Mendes. Contrary to many’s belief, Alvarez learned that a style like McGregor’s is more suitable for bareknuckle boxing than a brawler’s.

“I think he has a good style for it just because like I said, that fencing style where you’re in and out, and you’re not taking shots to give shots, and you’re not kind of Mexican fighting. I would say that’s conducive for bareknuckle,” Alvarez told Morning Kombat. “That bouncy, back-and-forth-tag-you’re-it style makes for a very good bareknuckle fighter. Conor has that style. I think he would do well, just a matter of if he’s able to get out of that contract and make something happen.”

Alvarez is currently a free agent in MMA, but signed to BKFC for bareknuckle boxing. He returns to the ring for a second time at BKFC 56 to face Mike Perry in the main event of the card.

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In his debut, McGregor was ringside to witness the bareknuckle action and even had a faceoff with Perry, who defeated Luke Rockhold that night. Although that was arguably BKFC’s most high-profile card, McGregor stole many of the headlines with his appearance.

Alvarez didn’t mind McGregor taking some of the shine.

“I don’t think it was a crash of the party,” Alvarez said. “I think it made the party. We had Conor there, we had Kamaru Usman, Trevor Wittman and Justin Gaethje, I mean the list goes on and on.

“That just proves that MMA fighters and the UFC fighters and all these other promotions is where all these other athletes go to be entertained, right? Football players, baseball players, basketball players. They go to the UFC to be entertained. Where do the fighters go to be entertained? They go to bareknuckle. There’s levels to it. Fighters also want to be entertained, but we’re desensitized by boxing and MMA. There’s too many rules. We go to bareknuckle to be entertained. That’s where we get our rocks off. It was good to see the highest level of martial artist around the ring and be fairly entertained.”

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Mike Perry vs. Eddie Alvarez to decide ‘King of Violence’ champ at BKFC 56

Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez are the right guys to fight for BKFC’s “King of Violence” title belt.

Move over, “BMF” belt. A new combat sports title gimmick is about to take center stage.

When former UFC standouts [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag] and [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] compete in the BKFC 56 headliner next month, a belt will be on the line in the form of the promotion’s newly created “King of Violence” championship.

During Thursday’s BKFC 56 news conference in Salt Lake City, BKFC president David Feldman said the promotion settled on a design for the belt after receiving votes from 47,000 fans who picked from three designs. The belt, which Feldman said won’t be ready for another week, will be awarded to the Perry-Alvarez winner.

“I’m happy about it, and I’m happy to be able to do something a little different up here,” Feldman said. “This is a violent sport. We’ve run to it. We say what it is: It’s a brutal sport. It’s not more dangerous than anything else out there, but you have to be a different kind of person to fight bare-knuckle fighting, and these guys are. They’re different, and that’s why they’re fighting for the ‘King of Violence’ championship.”

The “King of Violence” title is different, but it’s nothing new. Back in November 2019, the UFC created a “BMF” title belt especially for a fight between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz at UFC 244, which Masvidal won. That figured to be the only time the “BMF” belt would be at stake, but the UFC brought it back earlier this year for the UFC 291 headliner between Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier, which Gaethje claimed by knockout. Now there’s talk of Gaethje possibly defending it against Max Holloway.

Feldman said BKFC’s “King of Violence” title “is probably gonna be a one-and-done thing for us,” but you never know. For now, he’s got two masters of violence in Perry and Alvarez who are the right guys for such a title.

“We have two violent guys – a Philly guy and a Florida guy – that are gonna collide in the squared circle on Dec. 2 here in Salt Lake City,” Feldman said. “It’s gonna be an epic, epic night.”

BKFC 56 will mark Perry’s fourth time competing for the promotion. He’s 3-0 in his previous appearances, with wins over Julian Lane, Michael Page, and most recently a second-round TKO of ex-UFC champ Luke Rockhold this past April.

That same night, Alvarez, a former UFC and Bellator champion, made his bare-knuckle debut and won a split decision over Chad Mendes.

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Video: Mike Perry, Eddie Alvarez trade punches during spirited first faceoff ahead of BKFC 56

Punching each other in the gut was all in good fun between Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez – we think.

It was all in good fun – we think.

On Thursday, [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag] and [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] partook in a lively press conference filled with trash talk in Salt Lake City, where the two former UFC fighters will meet Dec. 2 in the BKFC 56 headliner for the “King of Violence” championship belt.

Afterward, Perry and Alvarez had their first faceoff. And, well, it got violent.

The two men came face to face with BKFC president David Feldman between, they exchanged some words, and then exchanged some punches to the stomach that they apparently were OK with? They might’ve been playing around, but those punches were pretty hard. Thankfully, nothing got out of hand.

You can watch the faceoff between Perry and Alvarez in the video above.

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Video: BKFC 56 pre-fight press conference live stream

Watch the BKFC 56 pre-fight press conference live, featuring Eddie Alvarez, Mike Perry and many others.

The BKFC 56 pre-fight press conference takes place Thursday, and you can watch a live stream of the event right here on MMA Junkie beginning at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT).

The event features seven UFC veterans on the main card and three title fights. Expected to participate in the press conference are main eventers, former UFC champion [autotag]Eddie Alvarez[/autotag] and [autotag]Mike Perry[/autotag]. Also, at the press conference will be co-main heavyweights [autotag]Ben Rothwell[/autotag] and [autotag]Todd Duffee[/autotag], along with BKFC president David Feldman.

BKFC 56 takes place Saturday, Dec. 2 at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City. The main card airs on FITE and the BKFC App.

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