Alex Pereira aims to achieve unprecedented feat

UFC airy heavyweight champion Alex Pereira has revealed that helium has been retired of enactment for astir 2 months owed to injury, but is present dilatory getting backmost into shape. Pereira precocious posted a lengthy connection connected Instagram aft returning to grooming for the archetypal clip since regaining the belt.

“Poatan” defeated Magomed Ankalaev astatine UFC 320 via TKO successful the archetypal round. It was an awesome performance, particularly considering the Brazilian mislaid his rubric to the Russian astatine UFC 313. Following UFC 320, Pereira spent a batch of clip traveling and celebrating his victory; helium visited the San Siro to ticker a unrecorded Italian league shot match, and besides attended the Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Training and comeback

However, the champion has present posted a photograph from a sparring league and confirmed that it was his archetypal grooming league since defeating Ankalaev. Pereira wrote:

“Yesterday was a truly bully time for training, a time wherever I was capable to beryllium to myself what I tin bash and however acold I tin go. I haven’t trained since my past combat due to the fact that I injured my foot, and now, earlier I get backmost to training, I decided to walk Thanksgiving play with my kids successful Orlando. But determination was a flimsy alteration of program and we went to the gym, wherever I did 2 workouts.”

He added that helium wasn’t afloat acceptable for the sparring and was a small unsure astir going “full force.” However, he’s blessed helium didn’t get injured and reiterated that helium wants to execute thing that nary 1 has ever done before:

“Maybe I didn’t person the aforesaid show due to the fact that those were my lone 2 workouts aft the past combat and I wasn’t physically ready. I was a small disquieted due to the fact that I didn’t travel present to bash this benignant of grooming and I didn’t adjacent bring a mouthguard. But convey God, thing happened. I’m coming backmost to bash what nary 1 has done. CHAMA.”