In late 2018, former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez made big news when it was announced he had signed with Asian MMA powerhouse ONE Championship. Alvarez was put right into the mix in the promotion’s lightweight grand prix, and most expectations were that he probably would wind up the champion in short order. But in his debut Sunday, Timofey Nastyukhin shattered that dream when he took out Alvarez with a first-round TKO at “ONE Championship 92: A New Era” in Tokyo. It’s been less than three years since Alvarez won the UFC’s 155-pound title in just his fourth fight with the promotion. But since then, he is 1-3 with a no-contest, and all three losses are by knockout. So what does the loss mean for Alvarez’s immediate future
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