Dana White discusses Alex Pereira moving to heavyweight

After a large show astatine the UFC 320 event, Alex Pereira decidedly cemented his presumption successful the astir elite warring organization. The Brazilian returned the loop of the airy heavyweight class successful an explicit way, little than 2 minutes aft the commencement of the match, knocking retired Magomed Ankalaev and frankincense correcting the mistakes from the archetypal duel. The assemblage successful Las Vegas was successful a trance, and his show resonated passim the martial arts world.

After the fight, the 33-year-old combatant admitted that helium had a code ready, but dismissed it; alternatively helium asked for a minute's soundlessness successful grant of Jon Jones, whose member Arthur died aged 39. 

The notation of Jones caused a flurry of reactions arsenic Pereira has been toying with the thought of ​​a determination to heavyweight for a agelong clip and a imaginable mega-duel against 1 of the top of each time.

Dana White was not instantly enthusiastic astir this idea. 

"I was astatine enactment today, had a clump of meetings, and I stopped by the Performance Institute. I recovered Pereira there. I said, 'You're the past idiosyncratic I expected here. What are you doing here?' And they said, 'We privation a heavyweight fight.' I said, 'Let's triumph contiguous first, past we'll speech astir heavyweight,'" White said.

Dana White connected Pereira

The UFC brag made nary concealed of however overmuch helium values ​​the Brazilian. 

"This feline was an implicit prima for us. He was connected abrogation successful Australia, landed and accepted the combat due to the fact that idiosyncratic canceled. He's warring injured, it doesn't substance to him. He wants to combat everyone. He wants to spell heavyweight. It's a imagination to person him successful the organization."

Pereira himself knows that getting down to 93 kilograms is getting harder and harder and that helium has a constricted fig of attempts to bash it, which further complicates the communicative of moving up to the heavyweight division. White, however, has reservations. 

"Probably due to the fact that helium was a middleweight and present helium would person jumped 2 value classes. In the UFC, it's not similar successful boxing. It's a immense jump."

A 3rd combat with Ankalaev is an improbable option, but Carlos Ulberg, who knocked retired Dominick Reyes successful Perth, seems similar a logical candidate. Jiri Prochazka besides won astatine the aforesaid event, but helium has already mislaid doubly to Pereira. A superfight with Jones oregon the victor of the Tom Aspinall-Cyril Gane combat astatine UFC 321 sounds absorbing for some fans and the UFC.

White is assured successful the Brazilian: 

"It's casual to say, but helium showed and delivered everything helium promised tonight. People emotion him. People emotion the mode helium fights. And aft a show similar that – who tin complain."