Aline Pereira’s American dream is to construct a preventing profession strong sufficient that her household can have a cushty life in the USA, and she or he now not wants a aspect job to make ends meet.
The youthful sister of UFC gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira is slated to return to the Karate Fight pit Friday in Miami, battling Gisele Luna. Forward of that contest, she celebrates being round legends of the game within the gymnasium, equivalent to her brother “Poatan” and ex-UFC champion Glover Teixeira, and desires of sooner or later with the ability to “stay just for the game.”
Like her brother, Pereira constructed a profession in kickboxing earlier than trying a transition to MMA between 2022 and 2023, going 1-2 underneath the LFA banner. She’s now underneath contract with Karate Fight, and scored a highlight-reel knockout over Dee Begley in her debut this previous October.
Regardless of the nice bump in pay in Karate Fight in comparison with kickboxing and MMA, Pereira stated she nonetheless must hustle for hours to earn more money in between fights.
“I do deliveries for Amazon, and we do what now we have to do,” Pereira informed MMA Combating. “This routine may be very tiresome as a result of we nonetheless need to accommodate the coaching hours and the job, however it all works out in the long run.”
When not in camp for a battle, Pereira wakes up at 2:30 a.m. and drives 10 minutes to an Amazon warehouse to choose up packing containers to ship. She defined the choice to get up that early is to keep away from visitors and ensure she’s free to coach later within the day.
“It’s not simple,” Pereira stated. “We do deliveries for 4 and a half hours. However it’s nice to be right here. The US is excellent for me and my son, too.”
Pereira hopes to attain one other victory Friday to earn larger alternatives within the fight sports activities world. She’s nonetheless engaged on her wrestling and jiu-jitsu at Glover Teixeira’s gymnasium for a possible return to MMA down the road, however the focus in the present day is to construct a profession at Karate Fight.
“I’m actually excited, I actually liked my debut,” Pereira stated. “[Karate Combat] is kind of totally different, isn’t it? I got here well-prepared final time, and it received’t be totally different this time. I’ll placed on one other present. The promotion is rising, and it’s nice to be a part of it. They worth the athlete loads. … We practice for [a knockout], proper? My brother and I are very technical, and we all the time work for the knockout, however I can’t come right here and promise a knockout. Humorous that final time I stated I’d knock her out. I by no means stated it earlier than a battle, however she was speaking a lot crap.”
