Two-division UFC champion Alex Pereira goes to make his heavyweight debut on June 14 on the White Home, the place he’ll tackle Ciryl Gane for the interim 265-pound championship.
Pereira turns into the primary fighter within the promotion’s historical past to aim to win titles in three completely different weight divisions. After vacating his mild heavyweight title earlier this yr, he has been bulking up for his transfer up, and he admits that including the additional weight has, for positive, price him some pace. Regardless of that, Pereira says he feels the identical. In a current clip, he mentioned:
“I really feel the very same. Clearly, it’s not doable to bulk as much as a a lot greater weight class, larger, and never lose perhaps a bit little bit of pace. We’ll see within the struggle. However I really feel the very same. I simply added, however didn’t lose something.”
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Michael Bisping and Tom Aspinall on Alex Pereira vs. Ciryl Gane
Many within the MMA group consider this would be the hardest struggle for the Brazilian thus far. Even heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall not too long ago opined that “Bon Gamin” will defeat “Poatan” by determination, as “Gane is a large heavyweight who strikes lots, strikes actually, very well, is basically fluid on his ft.”
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In the meantime, after watching Pereira’s latest sparring clip with Tallison Teixeira, Michael Bisping added that Ciryl Gane may have a transparent pace benefit in opposition to “Poatan.”
“Ciryl Gane goes to have the pace benefit. He’s additionally going to be lighter on the ft.”
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Gane will even have a two-inch attain benefit over “Poatan” on June 14, and, reportedly, that is the longest attain the latter has ever confronted within the UFC. [Stat courtesy of @DovySimuMMA on X].
