Pereira considers move to heavyweight: Aspinall reveals his thoughts on the move

Former airy heavyweight champion (up to 93 kilograms), 38-year-old Alex Pereira, is presently astatine an important turning constituent successful his UFC career. After an awesome 4 palmy rubric fights successful little than a year, helium mislaid the loop to Magomed Ankalaev astatine UFC 313 successful March of this year. The judges' determination was unanimous, but it is inactive not definite whether determination volition beryllium a rematch.

"Poatan" went connected abrogation aft that match, but did not springiness immoderate denotation astir the adjacent step. In summation to resting, it seems that helium has besides enactment connected immoderate weight, which already hinted astatine his modulation to the heavyweight division.

He precocious published a video connected societal networks wherever the standard shows 112 kilograms, which caused galore reactions.

Tom Aspinall and Pereira's caller weight

The existent UFC heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, commented connected Pereira's fig connected the scales and admitted that helium takes the Brazilian prima seriously.

"Pereira knows precisely what he's doing," Aspinall told UFC connected Eurosport. "I find each combat absorbing and I'm acceptable for each challenge. It doesn't instrumentality overmuch for maine to beryllium interested. I tin accidental that I'm the easiest idiosyncratic to put a combat with."

Although Tom has his ain plans for the adjacent matches, helium wouldn't caput seeing Alex successful the octagon once.

"If I were him, I'd spell backmost to airy heavyweight and look for a accidental to get the rubric back. But I'm not him, truthful I don't cognize what he's thinking."

When it comes to his weight, Aspinall points retired that Pereira and his squad cognize precise good however to pull attraction and make media headlines.

"As acold arsenic I know, it's mean for him and immoderate different airy heavyweights to summation 108 to 113 kilograms during the off-season. Maybe he's conscionable teasing us," concluded Tom.