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as an example. He'd like to do something similar in his home province of British Columbia. Alessio came up in the Wild West days of MMA, thrown to the sharks, so to speak. He's grown up with the sport, and has learned from his losses.
"A lot of my losses were fights that I just shouldn't have taken," said Alessio. "Like when I fought Egan Inoue [in 1999]. He was like 210 lbs., I was 170. That fight shouldn't have happened! There should have been someone saying, 'No, don't make that fight.'"
"But I'm a fighter," he continued. "I'll fight anybody. [With some uneven matchups] my head might say no, but my heart, the fighter in me, always says yes. I'll fight anyone, anywhere. You can drain a swimming pool and tell me that's where we're fighting. It doesn't matter."
Alessio is in the gym training, but doesn't have any fights booked or scheduled at the moment. He said he'd love to get a fight for May...or maybe even June 12, at UFC 115.
So how about it, Dana White? Think there's room on the 115 card for a hometown fighter like John Alessio? You wouldn't even have to put him in a swimming pool.
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