All eyes had been on Saturday’s UFC 313 important occasion to see the sunshine heavyweight champion Alex Pereira tackle the highest contender within the division Magomed Ankalaev.
The combat went the gap and the judges scored Ankalaev the winner through unanimous determination. Pereira’s dominance over the 205-division ended and a brand new champion was topped.
Together with the hundreds of thousands of combat followers watching worldwide, interim heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall tuned in and supplied his realtime response to the sunshine heavy heavyweight title altering palms.
“Dana White not wanting too comfortable there if I say so myself. Uncle Dana would not look too comfortable. Alex Pereira definitely would not look too comfortable,” Aspinall mentioned on his YouTube channel after the scorecards had been learn.
“Initially, nice combat. Anybody that claims it wasn’t would not know MMA. I assumed it was an incredible combat,” Aspinall mentioned. “The important thing to successful for Ankalaev, in my view, he needed it extra, strain; he seemed the more energizing man, mixing within the takedowns and the hanging superbly. I wasn’t certain if he’d try this, to be trustworthy.”
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In the course of the UFC 313 Put up-Struggle Press Convention, UFC CEO Dana White mentioned that Pereira and Ankalaev are probably headed for a right away rematch and Aspinall agrees if that is the trail the combat promotion takes.
“Alex Pereira’s reign is completed for now. In my view, fast rematch. It needs to be their subsequent (combat),” Aspinall mentioned. “Alex Pereira is an enormous, large, large star within the sport of MMA. Huge. Misplaced his title, however the run that he is been on has warranted a right away rematch, in my view.”
