JANUARY 23, 2023 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
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Alex Pereira Stands Out as Jamahal Hill's Most Compelling Challenger The new division champion has a short list of potential contenders for the belt. Plus, could Brandon Moreno and Deiveson Figueiredo meet a f...
UFC champ Alex Pereira gives timeline for return, open for Israel Adesanya rematch or Robert Whittaker UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira sees two viable options for his first title defense.
JANUARY 19, 2023 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
UFC 283 'Embedded,' No. 2: Glover Teixeira trains with champ Alex Pereira Go behind the scenes at UFC 283 in Brazil with the second episode of “Embedded,” featuring former champ Glover Teixeira and Jamahal Hill.
JANUARY 17, 2023 • SACBEE.COM
Marvin Vettori: UFC champion Alex Pereira will beat Israel Adesanya again if they rematch Marvin Vettori thinks UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira has Israel Adesanya’s number.
JANUARY 11, 2023 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Punahele Soriano: Israel Adesanya still 'the way harder fight' than new UFC champ Alex Pereira Alex Pereira might be a new 185-pound king of the UFC, but is he the toughest fight in the division? Punahele Soriano has doubts.
JANUARY 7, 2023 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Video: Who challenged Alex Pereira for our Male Fighter of the Year? The UFC’s Alex Pereira was our 2022 Male Fighter of the Year. Did we get it right? Our “Spinning Back Clique” panel debates the options.
JANUARY 4, 2023 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
MMA Junkie's 2022 Breakout Fighter of the Year: Alex Pereira Alex Pereira went from unranked to champion in the span of 12 months.
JANUARY 2, 2023 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Chael Sonnen's 2022 Comeback of the Year is not Leon Edwards or Alex Pereira Chael Sonnen lauds Leon Edwards and Alex Pereira for their title-winning finishes, but they’re not his 2022 Comeback of the Year.
DECEMBER 26, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Video: Jiri Prochazka, Leon Edwards and Alex Pereira claim UFC gold in 2022 with epic fifth-round comebacks Only a handful of championship bouts in UFC history have ended in the fifth round, and 2022 provided perhaps the most memorable of them all.
DECEMBER 26, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Chael Sonnen thinks Robert Whittaker should get title shot vs. Alex Pereira – and he'd be favorite “I who believes in a forfeiture clause, I believe that Whittaker just won. I believe we now have our fight, it’s Pereira vs. Whittaker,” say...
DECEMBER 21, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
Will Robert Whittaker fight Alex Pereira next? Ranking the former UFC champ's likely next opponent This morning, the former middleweight champion confirmed his blockbuster clash with Paulo Costa had been scrapped after the Brazilian failed...
DECEMBER 20, 2022 • SPORTINGNEWS.COM
Eugene Bareman 'quietly confident' Israel Adesanya can win Alex Pereira rematch 'with a few adjustments' As a reminder, Israel Adesanya was beating Alex Pereira “relatively comfortably” before the fifth-round TKO at UFC 281.
DECEMBER 15, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
PFL 2023 Challenger Series: Meet the welterweights, including only man to beat UFC champ Alex Pereira in MMA The PFL’s Challenger Series will return Jan. 27 with eight consecutive weeks of fights across eight divisions.
DECEMBER 14, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Marc Goddard stands by Alex Pereira-Israel Adesanya stoppage: '11 times out of 10 wouldn't change a thing' Marc Goddard is certain that he didn’t do Israel Adesanya wrong by stopping his title fight vs. Alex Pereira at UFC 282.
DECEMBER 9, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
Sean Strickland: Israel Adesanya 'fights like a b*tch,' but UFC will 'milk this cash cow' with Alex Pereira rematch Sean Strickland unsurprisingly continues to not have very nice things to say about former UFC champ Israel Adesanya.
DECEMBER 9, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
Darren Till says Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya 4 warranted, but doesn't see Adesanya winning Darren Till isn’t sure if Israel Adesanya can get past the challenge of beating Alex Pereira.
DECEMBER 9, 2022 • SACBEE.COM
Sean Strickland wants rematch with UFC champ Alex Pereira, says strategy would be 'same f*cking thing' as first fight Sean Strickland would do “the same f*cking thing” and bang it out with Alex Pereira on the feet if he ever rematches the UFC champ.
DECEMBER 7, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
Sean Strickland wants rematch with UFC champ Alex Pereira, says strategy would be 'same f*cking thing' as first fight Sean Strickland would do “the same f*cking thing” and bang it out with Alex Pereira on the feet if he ever rematches the UFC champ.
DECEMBER 7, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Glover Teixeira admits sharing card with teammate Alex Pereira would be 'a little bit too much' Former light heavyweight champ Glover Teixeira would rather not share a card with teammate Alex Pereira, the UFC’s new middleweight champ.
DECEMBER 7, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Paulo Costa says Khamzat Chimaev smart for Alex Pereira callout: 'He saw a huge opportunity to get the belt easily' Paulo Costa agrees that Khamzat Chimaev is a bad matchup for new UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira.
NOVEMBER 23, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Paulo Costa says Khamzat Chimaev smart for Alex Pereira callout: 'He saw a huge opportunity to get the belt easily' Paulo Costa agrees that Khamzat Chimaev is a bad matchup for new UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira.
NOVEMBER 23, 2022 • SACBEE.COM
Alex Pereira tells Israel Adesanya to stop 'making excuses' for UFC 281 loss: Thank the referee 'for saving your life' “Adesanya stop making excuses saying that the referee stopped the fight early… you have to thank him for saving your life.”
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM
Alex Pereira tells Israel Adesanya to stop 'making excuses' for UFC 281 loss: Thank the referee 'for saving your life' “Adesanya stop making excuses saying that the referee stopped the fight early… you have to thank him for saving your life.”
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 • NEWSOBSERVER.COM
