UFC 287 Embedded, Episode 1: ‘I’ll hold the belt and make historical past’
On the primary episode of UFC 287 Embedded, Israel Adesanya and champ Alex Pereira land in Miami. Gilbert Burns stays motivated. Rob Font returns to motion. Jorge Masvidal exhibits off his Florida residence. UFC 287 is on Saturday, April 8.
UFC 282 takes place on Saturday on the Miami-Dade Area in Miami Fla. and is headlined by a middleweight title bout.
Middleweight champion Alex Pereira places his title on the road for the primary time in opposition to former titleholder Israel Adesanya. Pereira defeated Adesanya late within the ultimate spherical within the UFC 281 predominant occasion to seize the championship. He additionally holds two kickboxing wins over ‘The LastStylebender.’ Following the win over Adesanya at UFC 281, Pereira held up three fingers to suggest what number of occasions he’s crushed Adesanya in fight sports activities.
Within the co-main occasion, fifth-ranked Gilbert Burns faces former title challenger and artful veteran Jorge Masvidal. Masvidal believes that he can leapfrog the highest contenders to a title struggle in opposition to Champion Leon Edwards primarily based on their previous. Masvidal punched Edwards whereas giving a post-fight interview reside on TV when Edwards interrupted and put his palms up. ‘Gamebread’ dubbed the incident ‘Thee Piece and a Coke.’
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