UFC gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira was sparring with heavyweight contender Tai Tuivasa.
Pereira was in Sydney, Australia for a go to and whereas he was there he went out and educated with Tuivasa. Though the 2 aren’t in the identical weight class, the 2 did have a lightweight sparring with each other. It wasn’t a lot, however Pereira did appear like he held his personal within the spar.
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Pereira additionally didn’t look that a lot smaller than Tuivasa which is a little bit of a shock on condition that Pereira used to compete at 185lbs within the UFC. However, he has since moved as much as gentle heavyweight and has even talked about potentially going up to heavyweight.
After Alex Pereira’s knockout win over Jamahal Hill at UFC 300, he known as for a combat towards Tom Aspinall and to maneuver as much as heavyweight. However, UFC CEO Dana White didn’t assume that was the very best thought for the Brazilian.
“When you concentrate on him transferring as much as heavyweight, you’ve received [Jon] Jones. You’ve received [Tom] Aspinall. The listing goes on and in that heavyweight division,” White stated on the UFC 300 post-fight press convention about Alex Pereira (by way of MMAWeekly). “The heavyweight division is nasty. I don’t know if that’s the suitable transfer for him. He appeared rattling good within the division he’s in. I feel you may need to stick round there for a minute. However I don’t know. These are all issues we’ll discuss for the following 15 Tuesdays, so we’ll get it solid out.”
Alex Pereira at the moment doesn’t have his subsequent combat booked however is coming off a first-round KO win over Jamahal Hill at UFC 300. The Brazilian has stated Jiri Prochazka shall be his subsequent opponent, who he defeated by TKO in November of final 12 months to win the vacant title.
Tai Tuivasa, in the meantime, is on a four-fight shedding streak and is coming off a submission loss to Marcin Tybura. Additionally on the shedding streak, he had submission losses to Alexander Volkov, Sergei Pavlovich, and Ciryl Gane. Tuivasa doesn’t have his subsequent combat booked.
