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By Tony Reid



UFC Lightweight Eddie Alvarez recently made Mixed Martial Arts history by becoming the first fighter ever to capture both Bellator and UFC championships.



Alvarez's boxing and all around striking game, combined with his high-level wrestling and underrated ground skills have skyrocketed him to reach all-time elite level status in the sport. Alvarez has blessed fans with a countless number of exciting fights in various organizations all around the world during his decade long career.



From his back to back Fight of the Year performances in 2008 facing Joachim Hansen and Tatsuya Kawajiri in DREAM, to his legendary face-punching series with Michael Chandler in Bellator, the Philadelphia native is always down to put on a Rocky-like performance inside any cage or ring.



In our newest installment of our Gym Stories series the UFC lightweight champion takes us into a very intense sparring session that left the one time screaming coaches and training partners in complete silence by the time Alvarez was done with his opponent.



"Without mentioning any names I think sometimes when you are in the gym you get into actual fights with your sparring partners." Alvarez said. "Sometimes when that happens a lot of guys are done sparring and they start fighting. Everyone will start yelling and screaming things that you should do in the middle of the sparring.



"I was in a sparring session like that where it turned into backyard school brawl inside of sparring. It was a back-and-forth battle and everyone was yelling and screaming. I think everyone got excited about, not the sparring but the fact that they were watching a fight. I threw a head kick and knocked a guy out cold. Then everyone went completely silent.



"I went from feeling like part of the team to feeling like a jerkoff. I thought they were yelling and screaming and that they wanted something like that but it turned out I was wrong. It reminded me of the part in "Meet the Fockers" where he spiked the ball into the girl's nose."

