Roger Huerta vs. Eddie Alvarez at Bellator 33
During Bellator 33 on Oct. 21 in Kansas City, Missouri, current Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez will meet Roger Huerta during a three-round non-title fight.
Bellator season-two tournament champion Pat Curran is unable to fight due to injury, which forced Bellator to look for new options. Curran actually beat Huerta during the semifinals on his way towards the Bellator tournament championship — an upset that clearly threw a wrench in Bellator’s plans.
The injury to Curran, however, provides Bellator the chance to offer the fight Bellator wanted to arrange in the first place. Alvarez desperately needs a quality opponent he can face, and it looked like Bellator would have needed to look outside the organization for such a fight. 
I think Huerta still has legit skills, even though he’s lost three of his last four fights (last victory against Chad Hinton at Bellator 13 in April). However, I think a co-promoted fight between Alvarez and Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez would have been more appropriate.
Meanwhile, Alvarez will head into the fight with a large amount of confidence, as he’s on a five-fight win streak and has a 22 – 2 record.
If Huerta is able to come in re-focused and rack up a couple of wins — especially with his recent heroism by dropping a former University of Texas football player that sucker punched a lady in the street — Huerta could have his hand raised at the end of the night.
More likely, I believe Huerta will be able to eat Alvarez’s punches, but I’m unsure if he’ll be able to stop Alvarez from scoring takedowns — and locking in a submission over 15 minutes.
If it works out that way, I hope Huerta decides to wait and make meaningless movies until after his career is over.