Alex Pereira is bored with listening to how harmful Magomed Ankalaev is.
On Friday, June 28, ‘Poata’ will once again save the day when he steps into the UFC 303 main event on 16 days’ discover to defend his gentle heavyweight championship towards ex-titleholder Jiri Prochazka.
Following his huge first-round KO of Jamahal Hill at UFC 300, Ankalaev gave the impression to be the following man in line for Pereira, although the ‘Brazilian Boogeyman’ didn’t seem too terribly interested in that fight, as a substitute pushing for a rematch with ‘BJP’ following their November 2023 barnburner.
Nonetheless, Pereira seems to have had a change of coronary heart, revealing in a latest interview that he would greater than welcome a battle with Ankalaev as soon as he takes care of a little bit of enterprise with Prochazka.
“Magomed Ankalaev is a man I wish to check myself towards,” Pereira informed Stake. “Lots of people speak about that match up and say that he’ll submit me actually rapidly. I wish to shut quite a lot of these folks up and present quite a lot of my floor sport as nicely. It received’t be a simple battle, however will probably be a really attention-grabbing battle.’’
Magomed Ankalaev itching for his shot at Alex Pereira
Magomed Ankalaev has been chomping on the bit to get one other shot on the gold since his break up draw with Jan Blachowicz for the vacant 205-pound title again in December 2022.
Since then, the belt has been held by two totally different males however defended solely as soon as.
Irrespective of who leaves T-Cellular Area with the gold on Friday night time, Ankalaev will probably be ready to emerge from the shadows and take the strap that hardly slipped via his fingers virtually two years in the past.
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