LAS VEGAS – Alex Pereira needs to go up. He needs to go down. He’s additionally comfy staying put.
The pliability the present UFC gentle heavyweight champion Pereira (11-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) has expressed relating to weight lessons has impressed promotion CEO Dana White. That features the current callout of Dricus Du Plessis by “Poatan.”
“My tackle him is, he’s f*cking nasty,” White instructed MMA Junkie and different reporters at a Dana White’s Contender Collection 70 post-fight information convention Tuesday. “That’s my tackle him. He needs to maneuver up. He needs to maneuver down. He needs to go all over the place. That’s why folks love him. These are the kind of fighters folks love. Pereira needs to combat all people. I find it irresistible.
“… The factor that’s nice about it’s, for this reason I stated a minute in the past all people loves him and he’s nice. But it surely additionally offers us a ton of choices that as we’re in matchmaking, ‘Ought to we do that, ought to we try this? Shouldn’t we do that, shouldn’t we try this?’ It’s a superb downside to have with a man like him. How about he’s on trip and accepts the last-minute combat? All the things about Alex Pereira is what makes followers completely love the man.”
Pereira, 37, is at present booked to defend the promotion’s gentle heavyweight title Oct. 7 at UFC 307 vs. Khalil Rountree (13-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC). He beforehand held the UFC middleweight title.
Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) doesn’t have a title combat booked, although Sean Strickland has been recognized because the seemingly subsequent challenger. He most just lately competed Aug. 17 when he defeated Israel Adesanya at UFC 305.
White was noncommittal to a possible matchup between Pereira and Du Plessis ought to they each win.
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