Alex Pereira is bored with listening to how harmful Magomed Ankalaev is.
On Friday, June 28, ‘Poata’ will as soon as once more save the day when he steps into the UFC 303 principal occasion on 16 days’ discover to defend his mild heavyweight championship towards ex-titleholder Jiri Prochazka.
Following his massive 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 appear too terribly all for that struggle, as an alternative 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 struggle with Ankalaev as soon as he takes care of a little bit of enterprise with Prochazka.
“Magomed Ankalaev is a man I want to take a look at myself towards,” Pereira advised Stake. “Lots of people discuss that match up and say that he’ll submit me actually rapidly. I want to shut a number of these folks up and present a number of my floor recreation as properly. It gained’t be a simple struggle, however will probably be a really fascinating struggle.’’
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 completely different males however defended solely as soon as.
Irrespective of who leaves T-Cellular Area with the gold on Friday evening, Ankalaev will probably be ready to emerge from the shadows and take the strap that hardly slipped by means of his fingers nearly two years in the past.
