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15th March 2017
05:44pm GMT

"One of the biggest things I took away from that, man, is it's hard."The Underground King may have lost the fight and the belt, but the class he showed after McGregor had a belt on each shoulder in the centre of the Octagon showed that he was the hero of his own story. A lesser man would not have acted that way.
"It's not easy to be classy when you're really disappointed. Everybody knew that you were disappointed. There were no excuses, there was no B.S, you were super classy in defeat. I think there was a moment where your wife and all four of your children, they could look at that moment and potentially be even more prouder (sic) of you than they were when you won that belt, because that's the harder thing to do."
Stann closed off by making the very convincing argument about UFC 205's main event. In his eyes, the loss and how Alvarez handled it was a prouder moment than when he knocked out Rafael dos Anjos to win that coveted golden strap.
He had never been more vulnerable before, and at that moment, the real Eddie Alvarez had nowhere to hide.
"Winning that belt, jumping up on the cage, putting your hands up in the air - that's easy, right? But when you had to show the true... we saw the true Eddie Alvarez in that moment. We saw the man. When you die, your eulogy is being read, that's the part that lives on more so than your win/loss record."Once a champ, always a champ.
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