LAS VEGAS – UFC mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira has surpassed Dana White’s expectations.
Pereira (11-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) notched his second title protection by knocking out Jiri Prochazka (30-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) a second time on this previous Saturday’s UFC 303 foremost occasion at T-Cell Enviornment.
Pereira, a former two-division Glory Kickboxing champion, has replicated his success throughout two weight lessons within the UFC with little or no MMA expertise, successful titles at each 185 and 205 kilos. White admits he was initially skeptical about Pereira’s potential within the UFC, however “Poatan” has been in a position to show him unsuitable.
“It’s unimaginable, proper? No, I don’t suppose like that, particularly when you’ve a man that’s coming in from kickboxing,” White advised reporters on the UFC 303 post-fight press convention. “You realize? Has this lengthy kickboxing profession and is older coming into the UFC. I believe the precise reverse. This man’s not going to do very properly right here. He’s going to get taken down, smashed, submitted, you already know, all that form of stuff. However, man, was I unsuitable.”
White heaped reward on Pereira’s efficiency towards Prochazka. Pereira knocked down Prochazka along with his signature left hook within the final second of Spherical 1, however Prochazka was in a position to stumble again to his stool. Nonetheless, simply 18 seconds into Spherical 2, Pereira floored Prochazka with a head kick.
“He appeared unimaginable,” White mentioned of Pereira. “Combat began similar to the final combat, chopping that calf kick, busting his leg up after which, ‘Oh, he received saved by the bell.’ No, he didn’t. It was unimaginable. That man is a monster, absolute monster.”
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