Eddie Alvarez eyeing “big, mega fight” in last fight on current contract

Last weekend, on the main card of UFC 218, former UFC lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez solidified himself as MMA’s true King of Violence by knocking out another frontrunner for that lofty title, Justin Gaethje.

This win over Gaethje marked the second last obligation on Alvarez’s current UFC contract. Whatever the future holds, Alvarez is hoping the UFC will give him a “big, mega-fight” for the last fight on his contract.

“I actually have one fight left with the UFC,” Alvarez said in a post-fight interview with 93.3 WMMR in Philadelphia (via MMAJunkie). “I’ve finished all my fights, and I have one fight left in my contract. It’s time to sit down with the boss man and talk about long-term, talk about how we’re going to do this thing and what big, mega-fight we can have coming up.”

In this interview, Alvarez also touched on his new reputation as MMA’s most violent man. Unsurprisingly, the lightweight great is all for this monicker.

“I’m the most violent man in the UFC,” Alvarez explained. “They can take the No. 1, 2 and 3 (ranking). I’ll just take that title, and I’ll keep it. I’ve been crowned. … We went in to make a point. My performances in the UFC, I’ve been trying to win. Win, win, win. I’ve been so focused on winning that the performance itself wasn’t showing my true colors. We went in here with just the idea of, ‘Just be as violent as we can.’ The byproduct of that would be a win.”

Alvarez also broke down his finish of Gaethje, explaining that he knew Gaethje could bounce back with only an instant to recover.

“He was (out after the knee),” Alvarez said. “I put my hands up in the air immediately. I did not want to hit him anymore after that. I felt it; he felt it. The ref, I’m not going to say he was late, but I didn’t want to hit him anymore. I felt it clean. That’s a guy – he’s like I am. You give him a split-second, and he’s back in the fight, and you have to fight him all over again.”

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This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 6/12/2017.