Alex Pereira is eyeing a heavyweight tremendous struggle with Jon Jones subsequent.
The Brazilian famous person reclaimed his UFC gentle heavyweight title on Saturday night time with an 80-second demolition of Magomed Ankalaev in Las Vegas.
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Whereas Carlos Ulberg is ready within the wings for a shot on the 205lbs belt after knocking out Dominick Reyes final weekend, Pereira hinted that he might be transferring up in weight for his subsequent struggle.
“Heavyweight [is the most probable next move],” Pereira mentioned on the About Final Struggle present after his victory.
Requested whether or not he intends to struggle the winner of the heavyweight title struggle between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane at UFC 321 later this month, Pereira replied: “No, I need a tremendous struggle.
“It might be on the White Home, towards Jon Jones,” added Pereira. “That’s a brilliant struggle.”
Pereira had supposed to name out Jones within the Octagon, however as a substitute selected to dedicate his speech to ‘Bones’s’ late brother, Arthur Jones, who handed away on Friday at 39 years outdated.
” I used to be going to ask for Jon Jones on the White Home, however with every little thing that occurred, it’s not the proper time to speak about it,” revealed Pereira on the post-fight press convention.
Jones had beforehand expressed a need to face Pereira whereas he was nonetheless in possession of the UFC heavyweight title, and lately returned to the testing pool with eyes on a return.
The struggle would pit two dual-weight UFC champions towards one another and is undoubtedly a worthy principal occasion for the White Home card subsequent June.
Nonetheless, UFC CEO Dana White has already repeatedly snubbed Jones as a possible headliner as a consequence of issues over his reliability.
Alex Pereira snubs Khamzat Chimaev
Another struggle involving Pereira that might even be large enough to high the unprecedented invoice can be one towards reigning UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
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After Pereira obtained his hand raised, Chimaev took to X, previously Twitter, to put in writing: “@AlexPereiraUFC Congrats, now we have to end our enterprise.”
However Pereira was fast to swat away the callout.
“Thanks for congratulating me, however all I would like is a brilliant struggle, I wish to struggle at heavyweight,” Mentioned Pereira. “All I can say is thanks.”
Clearly, Pereira already has his thoughts made up about his subsequent transfer.
‘Poatan’ walks round north of 230lbs, so the bounce up in weight would not be an issue.
It’s only a case of discovering an applicable date for a struggle with Jones.