Could Eddie Alvarez make FW ?

[Megalodon]

Eddie's a great fighter but I feel like his proportions would be way more suited to Featherweight than Lightweight if he dropped some muscle mass, the guy is comically jacked. I get why he has the muscle but it seems kind of excessive and if he lost it he'd be able to make FW pretty comfortably.

He's 5 ft 7, and has a 69 inch reach.

 

[10mm]

Doubt it. He looks like shit at some of the weigh ins. No fat to lose.

 

[johncola]

I think he'd have to drop muscle to do it. As it is, he used to fight at WW and has mentioned LW being a tough cut. He has disadvantageous dimensions for the weight class. Normally, a powerful stocky guy like him is a knockout machine. But obviously that's not what he is. So he's really at a disadvantage.

He got paid a lot at UFC 205, and is 34 now. I don't see him changing his body composition and/or taking on an even tougher weight cut at this point.

 

[cheesus]

Eddie is not 5'7" stop spreading bullshit.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Doubt it unless he lost some bulk. Might not be tall for 155. But the guy is thick.

 

[OnMcGregorNutz]

Should be working at poultry farm weighing feathers then fighting in feather weight you see what McNugget did to him

 

[maxi diablo]

He's 5'8. I think the speed against other featherweighs would be too much.

 

[NotoriousMillions]

Eddie's a great fighter but I feel like his proportions would be way more suited to Featherweight than Lightweight if he dropped some muscle mass, the guy is comically jacked. I get why he has the muscle but it seems kind of excessive and if he lost it he'd be able to make FW pretty comfortably.

He's 5 ft 7, and has a 69 inch reach.

Lmao, how does Eddie keep getting shorter and shorter? And no, LOL. He used to fight at WW.

And LOL @ 69 inch reach, you know who else has that reach? GGG who has one of the best jabs in the game. Stop crying about arm length Conor hating dorks.

 

[Taric]

Eddie is not 5'7" stop spreading bullshit.

He absolutely is. RDA is 5'8 and Eddie is shorter than RDA.
Eddie was shorter than Patricky Freire and Pitbull is billed at 5'7.

Alvarez is really short.

His UFC billed height of 5'9 is Carwinesque hype machine.

As to the topic, Gilbert Melendez is bigger and taller than Eddie is and he used to fight at FW. Alvarez could fight at FW just fine.

 

[dog y]

He absolutely is. RDA is 5'8 and Eddie is shorter than RDA.
Eddie was shorter than Patricky Freire and Pitbull is billed at 5'7.

Alvarez is really short.

His UFC billed height of 5'9 is Carwinesque hype machine.

As to the topic, Gilbert Melendez is bigger and taller than Eddie is and he used to fight at FW. Alvarez could fight at FW just fine.

so he cuts height?

 

[Willek]

Imagine if Eddie was a few inches taller.

How hot would his body be?

 

[Taric]

so he cuts height?

Pretty much.

 

[brickhands]

yup and would be about as effective a penn was

 

[RampageFaction]

Eddie has said several times that he has no interest in featherweight and doesn't even think he could make the weight.

"I can't cut to 145 [pounds]. I'd have to cut a leg off. I come into camps around 186 pounds. ... I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at."

http://www.espn.com/blog/mma/post/_...s-dana-white-encouraged-move-to-featherweight

 

[cheesus]

He absolutely is. RDA is 5'8 and Eddie is shorter than RDA.
Eddie was shorter than Patricky Freire and Pitbull is billed at 5'7.

Alvarez is really short.

His UFC billed height of 5'9 is Carwinesque hype machine.

As to the topic, Gilbert Melendez is bigger and taller than Eddie is and he used to fight at FW. Alvarez could fight at FW just fine.

Absolutely is ? Did you measure him personally ? The guy is 5'8", 5'7" is a tiny LW.

Here he is standing next to a 5'8" RDA, no shoes on either guy on a fairly straight angle.

 

[Brettco]

Pretty much.

My friend from elementary school cut his hair off for swimming before 7th grade and it came back curly as fuck. It was completely different.
Like it was someone else's hair on his head!

 

[Taric]

Absolutely is ? Did you measure him personally ? The guy is 5'8", 5'7" is a tiny LW.

Here he is standing next to a 5'8" RDA, no shoes on either guy on a fairly straight angle.

Click the link I had in the post you quoted. You can't wear shoes during a fight.
Or better yet, rewatch the RDA/Alvarez fight. RDA is noticeably taller.

Hell watch any Eddie Alvarez fight. I can't think of a single fighter Eddie has faced in his entire career that he was taller than.

 

[Megalodon]

Lmao, how does Eddie keep getting shorter and shorter? And no, LOL. He used to fight at WW.

And LOL @ 69 inch reach, you know who else has that reach? GGG who has one of the best jabs in the game. Stop crying about arm length Conor hating dorks.

You are literally the only person in this thread who mentioned Conor. And Eddie is 5'7, he was shorter than RDA (5'8) and Conor (5'9).

 

[FlowchartRog]

Eddie is clearly no taller than 5'7, that cheese guy needs to actually watch the RDA fight. He is an inch taller, Conor looked at least 2 inches taller.

He's 5'7 tops, even Conor's own coach said his height listing is bullshit and he is 5'7.

And yeah I would rather see him at featherweight, he has a tiny frame and is carrying too much muscle.

 

[FlowchartRog]

Lmao, how does Eddie keep getting shorter and shorter? And no, LOL. He used to fight at WW.

And LOL @ 69 inch reach, you know who else has that reach? GGG who has one of the best jabs in the game. Stop crying about arm length Conor hating dorks.

Golovkin does not have a 69 inch reach. And lol at even mentioning Eddie in the same sentence as the beast that is Golovkin, he'd knock your hero out cold without breaking a sweat.