Making good on his gentle heavyweight divisional bow, former undisputed middleweight champion, Alex Pereira has landed at his new weight class with a victory — narrowly edging out fellow former gold holder, Jan Blachowicz in a detailed, cut up choice (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) win within the co-main occasion of UFC 291.
Pereira, a former undisputed middleweight champion, managed to outlive an early scare towards Polish veteran, Blachowicz within the opening body, seeing his again taken throughout a takedown scramble.
Compelled to hand-fight with the previous gentle heavyweight champion, Pereira managed to forestall a hellfire of rear-naked choke makes an attempt, to see a second body.
And narrowly edging the second and subsequent third rounds towards Blachowicz, Pereira, who made his first gentle heavyweight stroll in fight sports activities since his GLORY Kickboxing swansong again in 2021, managed to land a slew of low calf kicks to a much-labored, Blachowicz — lining himself up for a possible title battle in his deliberate sophomore gentle heavyweight outing.
