Alex Pereira revealed the key behind his brutal knockout energy.
Emanating from T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas, Pereira is ready to defend his mild heavyweight championship for the fourth time when he meets top-ranked contender Magomed Ankalaev within the UFC 313 headliner on Saturday night time.
Forward of maybe his hardest take a look at up to now, ‘Poatan’ supplied some perception into what has helped him develop into one of the crucial harmful forces in UFC historical past.
“I helped my father with development work as a bricklayer assistant,” Pereira stated on UFC 313 Embedded. “Then I labored within the tire store for 14 years. I began this job very early. And I feel I used to be rising my power. Then with all of the coaching, it improved.”
In simply 4 years with the promotion, Pereira has already KO’d a number of the greatest names within the sport, together with former UFC champions Sean Strickland, Israel Adesanya, Jamahal Hill, and Jiri Prochazka twice. He additionally scored a formidable fourth-round end towards Khalil Rountree Jr. in his final outing at UFC 307.
Bettors Suppose Ankalaev has the most effective likelihood of dethroning Alex Pereira
With that stated, Pereira has by no means confronted a grappler fairly as expert as Magomed Ankalaev. In consequence, the betting strains are almost useless even.
The Dagestani standout is unbeaten in his final 13 fights and solely has one blemish on his file, that being a last-second submission loss to Paul Craig in his promotional debut seven years in the past. In December 2022, Ankalaev scored his first shot on the mild heavyweight title, difficult Jan Blachowicz for the vacant strap at UFC 282.
The combat did not win over followers or ship a winner because the bout was finally dominated a cut up draw after 5 very forgettable rounds.
Since then, Ankalaev has earned wins over Johnny Walker and Aleksandar Rakić. His second-round knockout of Walker was an undeniably spectacular victory, however the win over Rakić left followers struggling to remain awake. Nonetheless, Ankalaev placed on a dominant sufficient efficiency to justify one other shot at gold.
