(Video) Alves styles on Dober with a series of dodges and weaves, then a little dance – it backfires horribly

Benny A. King

Rafael Alves had an interesting showing over the weekend against Drew Dober during the UFC 277 prelims.

Alves was all about styling on Dober and pushing his luck – sadly that backfired but not before he delivered this epic moment.

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Dober would go on to make Alves pay for the display of bravado floring him with a body shot during the second minute of the third round.

This was Dober’s second straight win after two losses.

Dober got a performance of the night bonus with this victory. After the fact he had an interview Laura Sanko during which he explained:

“I felt like he was gassing himself out his excitement and nervous energy was getting a little tired.”
” So the game plan for us was to stay calm and cool and collected, because I love exciting ”
“but I want to draw it into his game. So I was gonna let him blow his energy and then take advantage of after the fact”

“And when he started spinning, dancing and jumping. I was like, he’s very athletic. I can’t keep up with that. I’ll just wait till after he’s done.”

“I was I was headhunting a bit. And he was really hard to hit. And then I realized that his body was opening up and then, you know, I advise my coaches and then Terence Crawford in the in the audience told me to go to the body. So I ended up finding it and it was beautiful.”

And as for what’s next:

“I’m looking to get one in November. I hate being inactive. So whoever’s available in November, you can call out I love to see Bobby Green in the cage. If not, Jim Miller is a beautiful candidate. And man, the lightweight division is stacked so if anyone’s available November let’s do it.”