Aline Pereira’s American dream is to construct a combating profession stable sufficient that her household can have a snug life in the USA, and he or she now not wants a aspect job to make ends meet.
The youthful sister of UFC mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira is slated to return to the Karate Fight pit Friday in Miami, battling Gisele Luna. Forward of that contest, she celebrates being round legends of the game within the fitness center, corresponding to her brother “Poatan” and ex-UFC champion Glover Teixeira, and goals of at some point with the ability to “reside just for the game.”
Like her brother, Pereira constructed a profession in kickboxing earlier than trying a transition to MMA between 2022 and 2023, going 1-2 below the LFA banner. She’s now below contract with Karate Fight, and scored a highlight-reel knockout over Dee Begley in her debut this previous October.
Regardless of the great bump in pay in Karate Fight in comparison with kickboxing and MMA, Pereira mentioned she nonetheless must hustle for hours to earn more money in between fights.
“I do deliveries for Amazon, and we do what now we have to do,” Pereira instructed MMA Preventing. “This routine could be very tiresome as a result of we nonetheless should accommodate the coaching hours and the job, however it all works out ultimately.”
When not in camp for a combat, Pereira wakes up at 2:30 a.m. and drives 10 minutes to an Amazon warehouse to choose up containers to ship. She defined the choice to get up that early is to keep away from site visitors and ensure she’s free to coach later within the day.
“It’s not simple,” Pereira mentioned. “We do deliveries for 4 and a half hours. But it surely’s nice to be right here. America is superb for me and my son, too.”
Pereira hopes to attain one other victory Friday to earn larger alternatives within the fight sports activities world. She’s nonetheless engaged on her wrestling and jiu-jitsu at Glover Teixeira’s fitness center for a possible return to MMA down the road, however the focus in the present day is to construct a profession at Karate Fight.
“I’m actually excited, I actually liked my debut,” Pereira mentioned. “[Karate Combat] is sort of completely different, isn’t it? I got here well-prepared final time, and it received’t be completely different this time. I’ll placed on one other present. The promotion is rising, and it’s nice to be a part of it. They worth the athlete quite a bit. … We prepare for [a knockout], proper? My brother and I are very technical, and we all the time work for the knockout, however I can’t come right here and promise a knockout. Humorous that final time I mentioned I might knock her out. I by no means mentioned it earlier than a combat, however she was speaking a lot crap.”
