"I don't know him personally, but thank God he's good at talking because he can't fight for shit," Alvarez told CBS Sports Radio's Tiki and Tierney. "Look, in this sport - the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception. They're very good at tweaking this perception. If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right match-ups. This is what this guy's been given. Any real fighter, anybody who knows the sport of MMA, sees the style match-ups that he picks and understands this guy is not putting himself in any danger. He's not fighting anyone who he feels he can lose to.
"Diaz is a great style matchup for him. The reason he originally picked Diaz is he believed that was a great style matchup for him because Diaz only punches, he don't kick, he don't take down - he does everything Conor wants to do. Conor wants to box. He don't want to be involved in the sport of MMA."
Claims of "cherry picking" opponents have followed McGregor for most of his meteoric rise through the UFC. McGregor is primarily a striker and up until his victory of late replacement Chad Mendes at UFC 189, he didn't fight any grappling-first fighters in his run through the featherweight division. That win did little to silence McGregor's critics who saw Mendes' early success against McGregor as proof positive of his deficiencies in MMA grappling.
Alvarez himself seems to be one of these critics. After his interview with CBS Sports, Alvarez did a brief interview with TMZ where he continued down this line, mocking McGregor for his recent decision to call out the entire world of professional wrestling.
"The only wrestler that Conor is going to actually challenge is a fake wrestler. That's the only one he's ever gonna challenge. A fake one."
Morning Report: Eddie Alvarez says Conor McGregor 'can't fight for sh*t' and thinks fans are 'deluded' about how good he is
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"Diaz is a great style matchup for him. The reason he originally picked Diaz is he believed that was a great style matchup for him because Diaz only punches, he don't kick, he don't take down - he does everything Conor wants to do. Conor wants to box. He don't want to be involved in the sport of MMA."
Claims of "cherry picking" opponents have followed McGregor for most of his meteoric rise through the UFC. McGregor is primarily a striker and up until his victory of late replacement Chad Mendes at UFC 189, he didn't fight any grappling-first fighters in his run through the featherweight division. That win did little to silence McGregor's critics who saw Mendes' early success against McGregor as proof positive of his deficiencies in MMA grappling.
Alvarez himself seems to be one of these critics. After his interview with CBS Sports, Alvarez did a brief interview with TMZ where he continued down this line, mocking McGregor for his recent decision to call out the entire world of professional wrestling.
"The only wrestler that Conor is going to actually challenge is a fake wrestler. That's the only one he's ever gonna challenge. A fake one."
Morning Report: Eddie Alvarez says Conor McGregor 'can't fight for sh*t' and thinks fans are 'deluded' about how good he is
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