Pereira is able to showcase grappling at UFC 313
Alex Pereira was interviewed by the New York Publish previous to his fourth profitable mild heavyweight title protection try. “Poatan” revealed that he plans to power Magamed Ankaraev to proceed to combat along with his grappling.
“I am actually enthusiastic about this combat,” Pereira stated. “I feel this will probably be an amazing expertise, and he can say his personal phrases too. Let’s have a look at if he can stand for 25 minutes. If he cannot combat me for 25 minutes, he’ll must rise up and everyone knows what that can occur. Clearly, I wasn’t too centered on grappling earlier than shifting to the US, however now I have been coaching for about 4 years at Glover (Teixeira) and I am actually centered and devoted to it. So I feel it is a battle that pulls it out of me and lets everybody see what I have been doing with my grappling.”
Ankalaev solely suffered one loss in his professional MMA profession, however that occurred throughout his 2018 UFC debut. Since then, Ankalaev has gone 11-0-1, 1 NC. In the meantime, Pereira’s solely defeat underneath the UFC banner got here towards Israel Adesanya within the middleweight division. He defeated Jan Brakovich, Jiri Prochazka, Jamahar Hill and Khalil Rountree for 205 kilos.
Can “Poatan” add Ankaraev to his checklist of victims?
(TagStoTRASSLATE) Alex Pereira
