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Micheal Alvarez earns a BJJ Blue Belt

Fighter profile of Michael Alvarez by Rain Thunder

The ROV Featherweight contender Micheal Alvarez (6-3) has just stepped up in his BJJ game and earned his Blue Belt. He has competed in a local No-Gi tournament this weekend and won the 1st place in both 60kg and 64kg categories. After this, he was awarded his belt by Nicky Zimmerman, his BJJ coach at Iron Fight Team.

"I feel that this is a great step-up in my competition, in my opinion I've got good skills on every other aspect of the game, but on the ground, I was completely useless, until I met Zimmerman. It is often said that I'm the best kicker in the division, and in the clinch, I've got some technical elbow strikes, so I'm dangerous both on the outside and on the inside while in standup. My division is filled with grapplers, so I have to evolve in order to keep up with them. Zimmerman helps me do that with my ground game, which has definetly gone better and will go even better soon." - says Alvarez.

"Alvarez is a very mature and intelligent fighter. He calculates every single step of his and that gets him one step ahead of his opponent. Being one of the smaller guys in the gym, he usually has to rely just on his technique rather than strenght while rolling, and that is developing his technical aspect of the game incredibly. I also have to say that he's incredibly athletic - he has great balance, coordination, speed. I like working with him and I think he's got potential. We'll see how he handles himself in the octagon" - says Alvarez's BJJ coach, Nicky Zimmerman.

Michael "Doom" Alvarez (6-3) will face a big challenge in his career against a decorated BJJ Brown Belt Roberto Silva (8-3) at ROV 33. The event will occur at June 13th, at Kazan Sambo Centre (7708). Be there, and see Micheal Alvarez climb the ROV rankings once again!

 

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