Former UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, who also held gold at 185 pounds, hopes his skills will compensate for being “lighter” and eventually be enough to make him a heavyweight contender. They weren’t enough to save him brutal strike against Ciryl Ganebut “Poatan” claims that there was a loss as a result of illegal strikes.
“If I lose, I won’t stay at heavyweight,” Pereira said Ariel Helwani. “Everybody knows I’m lighter than all these heavyweights. So I’m not going to keep matching their strength when I could do something else and be better.”