Former UFC champion Daniel Cormier has warned Alex Pereira about any heavyweight ambitions he may need.
Brazil’s Pereira was defeated by judges’ resolution by Magomed Ankalaev in final weekend’s UFC 313 foremost occasion contained in the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas in what was simply his second defeat since becoming a member of the organisation in November 2021 — and after establishing himself as one in every of UFC’s most dominant strikers following a string of spectacular wins over the likes of Jiri Prochazka, Jamahal Hill and Israel Adesanya.
Such was his dominance that hypothesis arose to recommend that Pereira might goal what can be an historic world title at heavyweight so as to add to the belts he had already gained at 205 and 185-pounds. However Cormier, a former champion of each the heavyweight and light-weight heavyweight frames, has warned ‘Poatan’ to not chew off greater than he can chew after witnessing his struggles to beat Ankalaev’s ahead strain final Saturday night time.
“Watching him and Ankalaev combat, it provides me the thought,” Cormier mentioned on ESPN’s Good Guy/Bad Guy with Chael Sonnen, as famous by BJPenn.com.
“I believe he’s type of maxed out the burden he can go up. I don’t assume he’s robust sufficient to go along with anybody greater.”
Cormier added: “The quantity of strain that Ankalaev was capable of generate with out the hazard coming again at him like we anticipated, these heavyweights would type of simply stroll proper by what he was throwing at him.”
Previous to final weekend’s combat, Pereira had advised that there was a chance of a cross-code showdown with Oleksandr Usyk, although possibilities of which have now probably diminished comply with the defeat to Pereira.
Within the wake of the title change, UFC boss Dana White advised to the media that a right away rematch between Ankalaev and Pereira is probably going.
