Alex Pereira has grow to be one of many UFC’s most charismatic and feared fighters. The Brazilian debuted on the earth’s greatest blended martial arts firm in November 2021 and since then he has had a meteoric rise that has taken him to the most important stage.
Poatan received the middleweight title and is the present mild heavyweight king in solely 10 UFC fights. He has received 9 of them, solely shedding to Israel Adesanya in April 2023, with The Final Stylebender lastly avenging his earlier three losses to the former Glory middleweight and light-weight heavyweight champion.
After defeating Jiri Prochazka once more within the UFC 303 most important occasion, Pereira revealed he would like to grow to be the one UFC three-weight division champion. He additionally admitted he would like to struggle Jon Jones, the present heavyweight king, to attempt to accomplish that feat.
Will the Jones vs Pereira mega-fight occur? What did White say?
Jones is predicted to tackle Stipe Miocic on the finish of 2024 in a battle of two heavyweight greats. If Bones passes the take a look at, a struggle with Pereira could be an actual risk, as it could make sense for the followers and the group.
Nonetheless, that mega-clash received’t occur. Not less than not shortly. UFC boss Dana White replied with a “no” when requested about the potential of seeing each males sharing the octagon in a heavyweight title struggle.
Regardless of White’s damaging reply on The Pat McAfee Present, each fighters are open to face one another and the curiosity will probably continue to grow.
It is also a method from White to maintain “cooking” a possible mega-event that may ship by way of PPV buys, as many think about the struggle between the American and the Brazilian as one of the spectacular ever in MMA.
