Eddie Alvarez has delivered with more regularity than most in a long and distinguished career filled with thrills, spills and chills.
The former Bellator MMA and Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder built his name and reputation on blunt force trauma and a propensity for sudden violence. Alvarez boasts an 80% finish rate within his 30 professional wins, with 15 of those finishes having taken place inside one round. He has not fought since being outpointed in a surprising unanimous decision loss to South Korean upstart Rae Yoon Ok at One Championship “One on TNT 4” in April 2021.
As Alvarez awaits his next call to arms, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied him to this point:
38: Years of age for Alvarez, who was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 11, 1984.
18: Alvarez victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 60% of his career total (30). His list of victims includes Justin Gaethje, Rafael dos Anjos, Patricky Freire and Tatsuya Kawajiri. Alvarez holds six other victories by submission and six more by decision.
60: Seconds needed for Alvarez to punch Chris Schlesinger into submission at Reality Fighting 7 on Oct. 16, 2004. Having occurred more than 17 years ago, it remains his fastest finish to date.
11: Organizations in which Alvarez has plied his MMA trade. He has gone 9-1 in Bellator, 4-3 with one no contest in the UFC, 4-0 in Dream, 4-0 in Mix Fighting Championships, 3-1 in Bodog Fight, 1-2 with one no contest in One Championship, 2-0 in Ring of Combat, 1-0 in EliteXC, 1-0 in Reality Fighting, 1-0 in MARS and 0-1 in K-1.
46: Professional rounds completed by Alvarez since he turned pro in 2003. He has gone the distance on eight different occasions and carries a 6-2 record in those bouts.
1,174: Days spent by Alvarez as Bellator lightweight champion. He enjoyed two title reigns at 155 pounds for the promotion: June 19, 2009 to Nov. 19, 2011 and Nov. 2, 2013 to Aug. 19, 2014. Alvarez had a 128-day stint as undisputed UFC lightweight champion.
155: Significant strikes landed by Alvarez in his third-round knockout of Gaethje at UFC 218 in 2017. It ranks as the ninth-highest total ever recorded in a UFC lightweight bout and marked the only time in eight appearances inside the Octagon in which he connected with more than 48 such strikes.
8: Countries in which Alvarez has competed as a mixed martial artist. He has gone 20-3 with one no contest in the United States, 5-2 in Japan, 2-1 in Canada, 0-1 with one no contest in Singapore, 1-0 in Mexico, 1-0 in the Philippines, 1-0 in Costa Rica and 0-1 in Russia.
4: Alvarez losses by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 50% of his career total (eight). Timofey Nastyukhin, Dustin Poirier, Conor McGregor and Nick Thompson were the culprits. Alvarez has been saddled with two other losses by submission and two more by decision.
.762: Cumulative winning percentage between the eight opponents—Ok, Nastyukhin, Poirier, McGregor, Thompson, Donald Cerrone, Shinya Aoki and Michael Chandler—who have defeated Alvarez. They sport a combined record of 224-69-1.
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