At times, Eddie Alvarez stammered and seemed to have trouble finding words as he recounted the injury that forced him to withdraw from a rubber match with Michael Chandler at Bellator MMA’s pay-per-view debut this Saturday in Mississippi. The Bellator lightweight champion is recovering from a concussion suffered in training for the bout and faces an uncertain path back to the cage , though he is optimistic he will heal more quickly than others. “Since we called the fight off, I’ve been able to fully rest my head without having to go into the gym,” Alvarez, 30, today told MMAjunkie. For now, improvement is a day-by-day process as the effects of the head injury lessen.
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Champ Eddie Alvarez details how concussion took him out of Bellator 120 – MMA Junkie