Alex Pereira defended his UFC gentle heavyweight title with a fourth-round knockout over Khalil Rountree nearly a month in the past, and he’s nonetheless feeling the results of the win.
“Poatan” stated on an look on the Brazilian podcast Podpah that his hand nonetheless hurts from the combat, which happened at at UFC 307 on Oct. 5 in Salt Lake Metropolis.
“That fourth spherical, I used to be throwing jabs and hurting my hand,” Pereira stated. “I swear. I used to be considering, ‘My hand should be damaged.’ It nonetheless hurts. Not on a regular basis, no, but when I squeeze right here, it hurts.”
Pereira went 3-0 in 2024 with a trio of knockouts, the primary two over Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka, and has now received 5 in a row since shifting as much as 205 kilos.
“I noticed that the jabs have been working and thought, ‘I’ve to harm him,’” Pereira stated. “However then I hit him proper there within the [forehead], one of many hardest elements [of the body], and it stored hurting [laughs].”
The UFC is but to announce the following transfer for Pereira. Regardless of rumors, the Brazilian star will not be an choice to headline UFC 310 after current information of Belal Muhammad’s withdrawal from the Dec. 7 most important occasion.
