Don't sleep on Arman Tsarukyan vs Joel Alvarez this weekend

[Willek]

Tsarukyan only has one loss in the UFC to Islam and Alvarez beat the crao out of Thiago Moises within a round. Alvarez will probably miss weight again as he's a massive 155er.

 

[SaigeVanZant]

I'll sleep on my bed

 

[sdpdude9]

Arguably the best fight on the card between two top prospects. Winner should be in for a big top 10 fight next.

 

[DS66]

Great fight. Don't always love when the UFC matches up two top prospects, but this should be a fun one between two highly skilled guys. The grappling exchanges should be wild between these two (although Alvarez would do well to try and keep this one standing as he is likely the superior striker between the two and has crazy length for the division).

 

[Fraz]

This will be a brutal war between elite killers and assassins

 

[jnes]

Awesome fight, winner should fight Gillespie.

 

[StonedLemur]

Looking forward to seeing how this one shakes loose.

 

[Odoylerules4lyf]

I believe each of these guys are better than most of the rank squatters ahead of them in the top ten. Looking forward to this fight more than any other matchup in a while!

 

[usernamee]

I'll sleep on my bed

you mean on the futon

 

[StonedLemur]

I believe each of these guys are better than most of the rank squatters ahead of them in the top ten. Looking forward to this fight more than any other matchup in a while!

Love *rank squatters btw sir lol.

 

[StonedLemur]

you mean on the futon

Futon is a bed sir lol.

 

[Eiger]

This is a sneaky good Fight Night card imo. Besides the main event, and Tsarukyan/Alvaraez, I'm looking forward to Petrosyan/Rodrigues, Rong/Bahamondes, McKinney/Ziam, and Perez/Martinez. Hoping for some barnburners and great performances.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

It should be to co-main event. Whoever decides who the co-mains of these fight nights lately is should be fired.
Also Alvarez better make weight.

 

[Kwic]

Tsarukyan has the tools to be the future champ, or at least a contender.
I'm definitely not sleeping on him.
He is a beast.

 

[JKS]

Can't wait for this fight.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

Awesome fight but really hope Alvarez makes weight or else it will really make the fight pointless for him.

He’s missed weight twice in a row and with his build/frame seems like he should be a WW but he clearly likes the height/reach advantages at LW.

Definitely a high-level fight regardless, just would like to see a contender emerge when two guys this good meet.

 

[HeDidn'tWantTheFight]

Awesome fight, winner should fight Gillespie.

Gillespie fights once a year when he feels like it. I've stopped thinking of him as a contender when it comes to matchmaking.

 

[Rorschachxx]

Can tell right now Arman is going to have to take the hard road to the title. He's already looking like the guy who needs to put a long win streak together.

 

[Goodfella86]

Gillespie fights once a year when he feels like it. I've stopped thinking of him as a contender when it comes to matchmaking.

Same here. I don't even consider him when speculating about matchups, in general. I'm very excited for every one of his fights, but I'm not excited at all about his mma career.

 

[Busgosu]

Last I know from Joel is he was under 165 pounds already and the weight cut process is being monitored by the UFC P.I. He also travelled to Vegas a week earlier than the previous fight.
This training footage was taken at the P.I. during the weekend and released today in UFC Spanish Official Youtube channel. I'm pretty sure he'll make weight: