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by Shawn Ennis, MMATorch Senior Columnist
Eddie Alvarez's UFC debut was a long time coming, and he may yet do big things in the world's top MMA promotion. But those things didn't start against Donald Cerrone.
Alvarez took the first round pretty cleanly, having landed several big punches to the head of Cerrone. Cerrone, for his part, was able to absorb the shots without going down. Cerrone looked for the clinch throughout the first frame but was unable to figure out Alvarez's movement.
Cerrone came out with a perfect plan in the second round, and he executed it flawlessly. Cerrone was able to land several leg kicks and knees to the body, taking away the movement of Alvarez and keeping the fight in front of him, which enabling him to cause more damage with knees and kicks to the head. Alvarez came out stronger in the third, but Cerrone's continued assault on Alvarez's legs and body were too much. A nasty leg kick put Alvarez on his back with a minute left in the fight, and Cerrone followed him down to ride out the duration.
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