Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-01-17, close fight but not particularly exciting: Anthony Pettis vs Eddie Alvarez gets two stars.The black belt in tae-kwon-do and former Ufc and Wec Lw champion Anthony Pettis entered this fight with a professional record of 18-3-0 (83% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.2 lightweight in the world but he comes off the loss against #1 Rafael dos Anjos (=Pettis vs dos Anjos).
His opponent, the former bellator Lw champion Eddie Alvarez, has a mma record of 26-4-0 (81% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.6 in the same weight class. He lost to Donald Cerrone in 2014 (=Cerrone vs Alvarez) but he came back to win in 2015 beating Gilbert Melendez (=Melendez vs Alvarez). Pettis vs Alvarez is on the undercard of TJ Dillashaw vs Dominick Cruz – UFC Fight Night 81. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Event: UFC Fight Night 81: Dillashaw vs Cruz
Date: 2016-01-17
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Division: lightweight (155 lbs, 70 kg)
UFC Fight Night 81 fight card (main and best fights):
TJ Dillashaw vs Dominick Cruz
Anthony Pettis vs Eddie Alvarez
Travis Browne vs Matt Mitrione
Francisco Trinaldo vs Ross Pearson
Luke Sanders vs Maximo Blanco
Pettis’ previous fight: Anthony Pettis vs Rafael dos Anjos
Alvarez’s previous fight: Gilbert Melendez vs Eddie Alvarez
Pettis’ next fight: Anthony Pettis vs Edson Barboza
Alvarez’s next fight: Rafael dos Anjos vs Eddie Alvarez
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Official video:
(Free embeddable highlights video hosted on Youtube)
Click on the image to play the video (video hosted at this page on Facebook)
In my opinion the 3 rounds were won by Alvarez being round 2 the closer one but never to favor Pettis. Therefore, the judges cards were all wrong, however, two of them just reasonable but the third one useless delivery by a blind judge, or a judge friend of Pettis and/or something else !!!. Alvarez fully deserves the winning since was the only putting the effort in this fight. The fight itself was quite boring.