In a brutally honest post-fight assessment, a distraught Eddie Alvarez has admitted he is full of regret about how he fought against Conor McGregor at UFC 205. McGregor knocked Alvarez out in the second round of their lightweight title fight at Madison Square Garden on Saturday to become the first fighter to hold two UFC world titles simultaneously.It was a punch-perfect performance from McGregor who knocked Alvarez down three times in the opening three minutes as the Philadelphia native had no answer for his deadly counter left hand. Going into the bout, Alvarez spoke repeatedly about how he planned to expose McGregors perceived weakness in the grappling department but he came nowhere near doing so on fight night, with the Irishman easily stuffing his takedown attempts. Conor McGregor punches Eddie Alvarez in their UFC lightweight championship fight In an emotional post on Instagram, Alvarez admitted he paid the price for completely abandoning his game plan and said the biggest payday of his career is little solace for performing so poorly on such a grand stage.Alvarez wrote: Congrats to Conor and his camp on an amazing accomplishment. These guys continue to deliver, hats off to you fellas.As for my performance, the only thing I can honestly say was I blew it… I did nothing I trained [for]. I did the complete opposite of what we planned on a daily basis for 10 weeks.To sum up our plan in a sentence it was Go left and mostly wrestle. Instead I circled into his left hand and mostly boxed. Fighting the way I did was a for sure death sentence and the result was fitting. Conor McGregor declared he wants a better contract or a share of the ownership of the sports body after beating Eddie Alvarez I say it all the time, there is really small margin for error at this level and I paid for my mistakes. I managed to make it to the biggest stage and audience in my long career and [messed] it all up when I arrived. My heart sincerely hurts and when I dwell on it, I fill up with regret and anger.If there was a list of what not to do against an opponent of this nature I did them all on Saturday. I am disappointed in myself and this is not a reflection of my coaches, training partners, and the endless hours of training I commit to this sport.Every time I get into the cage I negotiate being vulnerable and possibly embarrassed against the opportunity to do something great and grow more. I always choose the latter regardless of the anxiety it brings to me. I think this choice is the only reason I ever succeeded in the first place.I thought in my head at least making a lot of money would make me happy but I am having a lot of trouble enjoying myself regardless of the cheque thats going to be written. I am very uneasy and discontent for the most part. Conor McGregor celebrates his KO victory over Eddie Alvarez I am lucky to have my wife and my child at a time like this to help me laugh and smile and let me know everythings going to be all right. They are my saving grace, without them I am a shell of a man.Besides the outcome I thoroughly enjoyed fight week and the lead up, it was a lot (of) fun.I have never defined myself off one win and Ill never define myself off one loss. I simply had a bad night. 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But I set my goal to break the world record before coming to Rio, so this is actually within my expectations.Later in the day, Shi continued Chinas success by winning the mens 69kg class.In addition to Lins withdrawal, the International Olympic Committee disqualified two lifters from past Olympics for positive retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games. One is from Turkey and the other from Armenia, but neither won a medal.That followed months of scandals in the sport which depleted the field for the womens 63kg. Defending champion Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan missed the Olympics after failing a drug test, while two of the top four from last years world championships were also out for doping-related reasons.Deng took advantage, hoisting 147 kilograms in the clean and jerk and 115 in the snatch for her world-record total of 262. Dengs clean and jerk lift also broke her own world record by 1 kilo.Choe Hyo Sim of North Korea took silver and Karina Goricheva of Kazakhstan earned bronze.I am going to try harder to win gold next time, Choe said. I am not happy with the result. I could have tried much harder.Because of the doping situation in the sport, fourth-place finisher Mercedes Isabel Perez of Colombia said she might yet win a medal.We have to wait for the doping tests, Perez said, chuckling. Who knowss? Being fourth is the best because if something happens, Ill just climb on that podium.ddddddddddddShi won the other gold for China by lifting 162 kilos in the snatch and 190 in the clean and jerk for a total of 352.Shi, who shares his name with another Olympic champion Chinese weightlifter, said the older Shi Zhiyong pushed him on to victory.You must deserve this name, respect this name, Shi said he was told. That encouraged me.Daniyar Ismayilov of Turkey, who used to represent Turkmenistan, won silver and said he had been inspired by mass protests which helped to prevent a military coup in his country last month.I felt they were fighting more than me, he said of the protesters. It really motivated me more.Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan won bronze.Weightlifting has been dogged by steroid use for more than 50 years, but better testing techniques have meant bans for more star athletes.Two of the sports superpowers, Russia and Bulgaria, were kicked out of weightlifting at the Rio de Janeiro Games after repeated doping cases. The International Weightlifting Federation had threatened to ban Kazakhstan and Belarus, too, but failed because various doping cases were not processed in time for the Olympics.Results from the past are also in danger because of advances in testing.Besides Manezas gold, Kazakhstan stands to lose four more Olympic victories after failing retests of samples from Beijing and London, including two by Ilya Ilyin, one of the sports biggest stars.Nine Russians from the 2008 and 2012 Games have also failed retesting, all for oral turinabol, a relic of the East German state doping program of the Cold War era.---Associated Press writer Luis Henao contributed to this report. ' ' '