Combat sports legend and Philadelphia’s own Eddie Alvarez is predicting bad things for opponent Jeremy Stephens when the two meet in the main event of BKFC Knucklemania V on Saturday, January 25 at Wells Fargo Arena in “The City of Brotherly Love” and streaming live on DAZN.

Ahead of that matchup, Alvarez joins Grind City Media’s John Morgan to preview the matchup, including the surprisingly tense buildup between the two veterans, and to discuss what the future holds for “The Underground King.”

0:00 – Thrill of fighting in Philadelphia for the first time since 2010
1:59 – Is the Wells Fargo Arena’s gate record in jeopardy
4:07 – “The fans are going to want me to end him”
7:01 – Establishing the Newtown Performance Institute
9:53 – Retirement looming? “I don’t think there’s going to be a time where my name’s not in the hat.”
10:34 – BKFC’s recipe for success
13:17 – Putting it on for Philadelphia
SOCIAL CLIP: Eddie Alvarez breaks down what it takes for a startup to make it in the combat sports world:
11:04 - 11:53 (starting with “A lot of the beginning” and ending on “well-known and broke”