UFC light-heavyweight champion Alex Pereira is finished speaking a few boxing match with Jake Paul.
‘Poatan’ is contemporary off his return to the cage in the primary occasion of UFC 307 earlier this month. In Salt Lake Metropolis, Alex Pereira placed on an unimaginable combat with fellow striker Khalil Rountree Jr. Regardless of some early success from the challenger, the Brazilian wound up breaking ‘The Warfare Horse’ down en path to a knockout win.
Following the victory, Alex Pereira revealed plans to take a while off. Given the UFC champion’s busy schedule, it ought to come as no shock that he doesn’t need to combat till subsequent March. Talking in a current interview with Ariel Helwani, Pereira opened up on his plans to return to the cage.
There, the UFC light-heavyweight champion was requested a few potential boxing match towards Jake Paul. ‘The Downside Little one’ beforehand known as out Alex Pereira following a sixth-round knockout victory over Mike Perry in July. As of now, Paul is about to return to the ring subsequent month in Dallas towards 58-year-old Mike Tyson.
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UFC light-heavyweight champion Alex Pereira shoots down Jake Paul boxing match
Regardless of some preliminary curiosity from ‘Poatan’, evidently he’s u-turned on the thought of heading to boxing. Within the interview with Ariel Helwani, Alex Pereira slammed the door shut on a possible combat with Jake Paul. In line with the Brazilian, there’s no approach ‘The Downside Little one’ can be calling him out if he wasn’t underneath UFC contract. Whereas Pereira loves boxing, he gained’t be going through Paul anytime quickly.
“I’m going to be sincere, after all, boxing pursuits me.” Alex Pereira acknowledged to Ariel Helwani, when requested a few future boxing match towards Jake Paul. “However he is aware of that I’m underneath contract to the UFC and I can’t simply depart. I feel that’s why he calls [me out] and says all of that.”
He concluded, “I feel if the UFC was a league that allowed everybody to combat in all places, he wouldn’t be saying that.”
What do you make of those feedback from the UFC light-heavyweight champion? Do you’ve any curiosity in seeing Alex Pereira vs. Jake Paul?
