Eddie
Alvarez
has delivered with more regularity than most in a long
and distinguished career filled with thrills, spills and
chills.
The former
Bellator
MMA and
Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder built his name and
reputation on blunt force trauma and a propensity for sudden
violence. Alvarez boasts an 80% finish rate within his 30
professional wins, with 15 of those finishes having taken place
inside one round. He has not fought since being outpointed in a
surprising unanimous decision loss to South Korean upstart
Rae Yoon Ok
at One Championship “One on TNT 4” in April 2021.
As Alvarez awaits his next call to arms, a look at some of the
numbers that have accompanied him to this point:
38: Years of age for Alvarez, who was born in Philadelphia on Jan.
11, 1984.
18: Alvarez victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting
for 60% of his career total (30). His list of victims includes
Justin
Gaethje,
Rafael dos
Anjos,
Patricky
Freire and
Tatsuya
Kawajiri. Alvarez holds six other victories by submission and
six more by decision.
60: Seconds needed for Alvarez to punch
Chris
Schlesinger into submission at Reality Fighting 7 on Oct. 16,
2004. Having occurred more than 17 years ago, it remains his
fastest finish to date.
11: Organizations in which Alvarez has plied his MMA trade. He has
gone 9-1 in Bellator, 4-3 with one no contest in the UFC, 4-0 in
Dream, 4-0
in Mix Fighting Championships, 3-1 in Bodog Fight, 1-2 with one no
contest in
One
Championship, 2-0 in
Ring of
Combat, 1-0 in
EliteXC, 1-0
in Reality Fighting, 1-0 in MARS and 0-1 in K-1.
46: Professional rounds completed by Alvarez since he turned pro in
2003. He has gone the distance on eight different occasions and
carries a 6-2 record in those bouts.
1,174: Days spent by Alvarez as Bellator lightweight champion. He
enjoyed two title reigns at 155 pounds for the promotion: June 19,
2009 to Nov. 19, 2011 and Nov. 2, 2013 to Aug. 19, 2014. Alvarez
had a 128-day stint as undisputed UFC lightweight champion.
155: Significant strikes landed by Alvarez in his third-round
knockout of Gaethje at UFC 218 in 2017. It ranks as the
ninth-highest total ever recorded in a UFC lightweight bout and
marked the only time in eight appearances inside the Octagon in
which he connected with more than 48 such strikes.
8: Countries in which Alvarez has competed as a mixed martial
artist. He has gone 20-3 with one no contest in the United States,
5-2 in Japan, 2-1 in Canada, 0-1 with one no contest in Singapore,
1-0 in Mexico, 1-0 in the Philippines, 1-0 in Costa Rica and 0-1 in
Russia.
4: Alvarez losses by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
50% of his career total (eight).
Timofey
Nastyukhin,
Dustin
Poirier,
Conor
McGregor and
Nick
Thompson were the culprits. Alvarez has been saddled with two
other losses by submission and two more by decision.
.762: Cumulative winning percentage between the eight opponents—Ok,
Nastyukhin, Poirier, McGregor, Thompson,
Donald
Cerrone,
Shinya Aoki
and
Michael
Chandler—who have defeated Alvarez. They sport a combined
record of 224-69-1.