Alex Pereira continues to placed on weight, and now has followers considering {that a} potential heavyweight transfer may very well be within the playing cards — which will surely seize the curiosity of UFC heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall.
As of now, Aspinall or Pereira, the previous UFC mild heavyweight and middleweight champion, are at the moment awaiting their subsequent battle bulletins. Talking with former heavyweight fighter Stefan Struve, Aspinall was requested about Pereira’s viral movies the place he continues to placed on weight. In his current weigh-in on Instagram, “Poatan” was 110.25 kgs, which equates to 243.05 kilos.
“So far as he’s involved, I feel that… if I used to be him, I’d need to get a rematch and get the sunshine heavyweight belt again,” Aspinall instructed UFC op EuroSport. “However I’m not him, so I don’t know. I don’t know.
“However I feel the load factor, the man and his crew know what they’re doing on social media. They know make headlines, which is nice. I feel, so far as I’m conscious, that’s fairly regular for him and different large mild heavyweights to rise up to 240, 250. So I don’t know. Perhaps he’s simply teasing it, possibly he’ll be in. I don’t know.”
Within the dialog with Struve, Aspinall did say he had a battle locked in, however wouldn’t reveal who it’s. Pereira just lately instructed MMA Preventing that he’s targeted on a rematch towards Magomed Ankalaev.
Whether or not it’s Pereira, or Ciryl Gane, or Derrick Lewis, Aspinall is prepared for anyone to share the octagon with.
“Any battle is fascinating to me,” Aspinall stated. “I don’t want a lot to be enticed right into a battle with any individual. I’m the simplest man. Simply inform me who I’m preventing, and I’m in.
