Alex Pereira resides his greatest life, and he’s ensuring people who helped him alongside the way in which are too.
In a brand new put up on X (previously Twitter), the sunshine heavyweight champion shared two images.
“Picture 1: 4 years in the past having lunch at my dad and mom home,” he tweeted, exhibiting him sitting in a rough-looking room with uncovered brick sitting on an inexpensive sofa. “Picture 2: Their dwelling right this moment. Thanks very a lot my God.”
Picture 2 is a powerful modern-style two story mansão with huge home windows and delightful marble. It’s a significant improve for his dad and mom, who labored exhausting to offer for “Poatan” and his siblings.
Foto 1Há quatro anos atrás almoçando na casa dos meus pais.
Foto 2A casa hoje. Muito obrigado meu Deus.
Picture 1Four years in the past having lunch at my dad and mom home.
Picture 2Their dwelling right this moment. Thanks very a lot my God. pic.twitter.com/HlwonZxT1g
— Alex “Poatan” Pereira (@AlexPereiraUFC) December 3, 2024
“My dad would purchase us footwear on the finish of the 12 months, and we must make them final the entire 12 months,” he mirrored in a video for Advanced the place he finally ends up shopping for some $2100 Air Jordan IV Retro footwear. “I by no means thought I’d pay this a lot for footwear. It’s unthinkable for me.”
Pereira appears to be ruminating quite a bit on his previous and current, with one other put up on his X account exhibiting him dead-eyed in entrance of a bunch of beer cans from 2009. Alex has talked quite a bit about how he was an alcoholic since he was extraordinarily younger and the way it was his determination to cease ingesting completely that started him on his path to changing into a UFC champion.
2024 Pereira: dapper in an costly go well with, nonetheless kinda dead-eyed, however like a shark — shifting ahead, succeeding, devouring every thing in his path.
“Thanks God,” he wrote as soon as once more in that picture.
Pereira is a two-division champion and the man the UFC calls at any time when they want somebody to step up and fill a niche on the schedule. Issues have been comparatively quiet for “Poatan” since he beat Khalil Rountree Jr. at UFC 307 at first of October. He fought thrice over the course of six months, which is wild to do even earlier than you consider doing it at a championship stage.
It looks as if the UFC is lastly giving him a little bit of a break, however we doubt it will likely be very lengthy. Will Pereira return in opposition to the final contender standing at 205, Magomed Ankalaev? Or will the UFC give in to Jon Jones’ want to arrange a superfight between the sunshine heavyweight champion and heavyweight champion? Tell us what you need to see subsequent, Maniacs.
