Johnny Walker has weighed in on Alex Pereira’s recent announcement that he (Alex Pereira) is moving up to the UFC light heavyweight division. Alex Pereira is coming off his fourth combat sports encounter against archrival Israel Adesanya. Pereira beat Adesanya via unanimous decision in 2016 and by a third-round KO in 2017 in their kickboxing…
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jamahal Hill has weighed in on Alex Pereira’s planned move to his division. Jamahal Hill earned the light heavyweight title by defeating Glover Teixeira at UFC 283 back in January. He’s expected to face Jiřà Procházka in his first title defense later this year, although a timeframe for the fight is…
New UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya caught some flak over the weekend due to his post-fight antics. At UFC 287, Adesanya viciously KO’d longtime nemesis Alex Pereira in the second round to regain the middleweight crown. Prior to the event, Adesanya was 0-3 against ‘Poatan’, who had bested him twice in their kickboxing days and…
Alex Pereira has given his take on Israel Adesanya’s widely debated celebration after UFC 287. Alex Pereira’s reign on the middleweight throne came to an emphatic and brutal end this past weekend in Miami. Five months after he unseated Israel Adesanya in shocking fashion at UFC 281, “Poatan” put the gold on the line for the…
Former UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira has addressed his fans for the first time since his UFC 287 loss. Pereira suffered his first-career knockout loss in MMA to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287. After a successful first round and a half for Pereira, Adesanya found his range on the feet and landed a powerful right…
Alex Pereira’s children remind us of the painful side of MMA. Seeing your father get knocked out would be difficult for anybody, even if he is a champion MMA fighter. Alex Pereira.faced off against longtime rival Israel Adesanya for the fourth time in the main event of Saturday’s UFC 287 PPV. Pereira had been victorious twice in…
Respect was shown between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira after UFC 287. Time will tell if UFC 287 ended the rivalry between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, but they certainly have respect for one another. After two fights in kickboxing and one in MMA, all of which saw Pereira getting his hand raised, some may…
Alex Pereira (7-2 MMA) and Adesanya (24-2 MMA) had last met at UFC 281 in November of 2022, with ‘Poatan’ defeating ‘The Last Stylebender‘ via fifth-round TKO to claim the promotion‘s middleweight title. Israel Adesanya made good on what was likely his last chance to beat Alex Pereira when he recaptured the middleweight title from his…
UFC 287 event is headlined by a middleweight title fight rematch between Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya. Alex Pereira (7-1 MMA) and Israel Adesanya (23-2 MMA) last met at UFC 281 in November of 2022, with ‘Poatan’ defeating ‘The Last Stylebender‘ via fifth-round TKO to claim the promotion‘s middleweight title. The pair have also fought twice…
Hip-hop icon Drake once again stands to lose or gain an enormous amount of money at UFC 287. The A-lister has bet on Israel Adesanya and Jorge Masvidal and backed both men to win via a KO. Drake is notorious amongst the MMA community for being a jinx whilst betting on fights, which is referred…
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