function not found Four surgeries later and Thiago Alves is again on the mend. Alves was scheduled to fight Matt Brown at UFC on Fox Sports 1 in Boston on Aug. 17, but a biceps injury forced him off the card and into the operating room… again. Alves underwent the surgery on Thursday and sounded in good spirits afterwards. “That’s surgery 4 in a year,” he tweeted. “You can call me the bionic Pitbull! Now the recovery starts!” That’s surgery 4 in a year. You can call me the bionic Pitbull! Now the recovery starts! http://t.co/h3TIOHKSHy — Thiago Alves. (@ThiagoAlvesATT) July 11, 2013 The American Top Team fighter hasn’t been fully healthy for the past several years, since he injured his knee in a 2009 bout with Georges St-Pierre .