One Championship: Eddie Alvarez says he was close to calling off Eduard Folayang fight
- Former UFC star admits he considered calling up and saying ‘I don’t know if we can do this’
- ‘The Underground King’ injured ankle 10 days out from the fight in grappling practice – ‘it was all a little sketchy’
Eddie Alvarez has shed some light on the ankle injury he suffered before One Championship: Dawn of Heroes, revealing it almost caused him to call off his fight against Eduard Folayang in Manila.
He revealed to ESPN that 10 days before the August 2 fight, and two days before he left for the Philippines, he “messed up” his ankle “pretty bad” in grappling practice.
“It got a little iffy,” the 35-year-old said in an appearance on the Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “We were considering just calling up and saying ‘I don’t know if we can do this’.”
Alvarez said he kept a wrestling shoe on and kept his foot taped up all the way up until the fight. “So until the fight happened, in the back in the locker room was the first time I actually moved around with a bare foot. And I got to feel exactly how it was gonna feel in the fight.
