One Championship: Eddie Alvarez warns Eduard Folayang the ‘King’ isn’t dead as he rounds on critics

‘You didn’t kill a King, you p***** off an empire,’ Alvarez writes on Instagram

‘The Underground King’ says ‘see you all in Manila’ – but Eduard Folayang warns it’ll be East versus West

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Eddie Alvarez walks out in Tokyo. He’ll be hoping for a better result in his second fight. Photos: One Championship

Published: 4:59pm, 12 Jun 2019Updated: 4:59pm, 12 Jun 2019

Eddie Alvarez has sent a defiant message to the critics who counted him out after his shock One Championship debut loss.

“The Underground King” picks himself up and goes again on August 2 in Manila – but he’ll be stepping into the lion’s den against Filipino Eduard “Landslide” Folayang.

A former lightweight champion in One, Folayang is the furthest thing from the walkover many expected Alvarez to be pitted againstfollowing that shock first-round KO by Timofey Nastyukhin in Tokyo back in March.

“Oh, you thought a loss would discourage me?” the former UFC star wrote on Instagram. “You see I am from a place where losing and failure was a common practice.

“My chances were very small to ever be called a winner. I learned to lose, fail, be told no, and was rejected way before I ever understood how to win.

“You didn’t kill a King, you p***** off an empire. I’ll see you all Aug 2 in Manila.”

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