UFC gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira wants to chop 22 kilos forward of UFC 303 subsequent weekend.
Everyone knows that Alex Pereira is a beast. He’s already executed a lot in his quick blended martial arts profession and but, many already see him as an absolute legend. Now, as we look forward to subsequent Saturday, he’s set to place collectively one thing much more particular. He’s set to defend his UFC gentle heavyweight championship on quick discover, taking up Jiri Prochazka for the second time.
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The rationale for that’s easy: Conor McGregor is out. The UFC knew that they needed to put collectively one thing nice to be able to keep away from mass resales, however in fact, that’s more likely to occur both means. With Pereira being one of the crucial standard fighters within the sport, although, you’d must think about this alteration will go away a variety of hardcore followers feeling fairly joyful.
Now, there’s the small concern of ‘Poatan’ needing to chop weight. He’s a giant man and needed to lower loads to be able to get all the way down to middleweight, the place he received his first UFC title. For this one, although, he’ll nonetheless must put in a variety of work to be able to hit his mark on the scales.
Alex Pereira steps on the dimensions slightly below 2 weeks forward of his combat at #UFC303
⚖️ 103 kgs (227 lbs)
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