Alex Pereira defended his UFC mild heavyweight title with a fourth-round knockout over Khalil Rountree nearly a month in the past, and he’s nonetheless feeling the consequences of the win.
“Poatan” mentioned on an look on the Brazilian podcast Podpah that his hand nonetheless hurts from the combat, which passed off at at UFC 307 on Oct. 5 in Salt Lake Metropolis.
“That fourth spherical, I used to be throwing jabs and hurting my hand,” Pereira mentioned. “I swear. I used to be considering, ‘My hand should be damaged.’ It nonetheless hurts. Not on a regular basis, no, but when I squeeze right here, it hurts.”
Pereira went 3-0 in 2024 with a trio of knockouts, the primary two over Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka, and has now gained 5 in a row since shifting as much as 205 kilos.
“I noticed that the jabs had been working and thought, ‘I’ve to harm him,’” Pereira mentioned. “However then I hit him proper there within the [forehead], one of many hardest components [of the body], and it saved hurting [laughs].”
The UFC is but to announce the following transfer for Pereira. Regardless of rumors, the Brazilian star is not an option to headline UFC 310 after latest information of Belal Muhammad’s withdrawal from the Dec. 7 primary occasion.
