Former UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez is known for his ability to consistently put on gritty, memorable battles. Amid a wide variety of pickings, two stand out: the ones with fellow former Bellator champion Michael Chandler (17-4 MMA, 14-4 BMMA). The first one, in 2011, didn’t go Alvarez’s (29-5 MMA, 4-2 UFC) way: Then defending Bellator’s 155-pound crown, he was upset by Chandler late in the fourth round of Bellator 58’s headliner. He righted that wrong almost two years later, at Bellator 106, when they met in yet another headliner.
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