Former two-weight champion, Alex Pereira stays assured of touchdown a rematch with newly-crowned champion, Magomed Ankalaev following his loss at UFC 313 — claiming discussing are already underway for him to combat the Russian in a direct rematch.
Pereira, a former undisputed middleweight champion, dropped his gentle heavyweight crown over the weekend in a controversial unanimous choice (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) loss towards the surging challenger, Ankalaev.
Nonetheless, voicing his displeasure with the loss, Sao Paulo native, Pereira claimed the actual fact he stuffed 11 takedowns and didn’t obtain a lot injury, means the end result ought to have landed in his favor as an alternative.
However so far as Makhachkala native, Ankalaev is worried, the previous champion was merely “working” from him throughout their UFC 313 headliner.
“I believed (Alex) Pereira was going to be pushing, coming ahead,” Magomed Ankalaev defined. “I believed he’d need to end me. We ready ourselves to dominate him. You may inform he was working away from me.”
Alex Pereira assured of securing rematch with Magomed Ankalaev after UFC 313
And revealing “negotiations” are already underway for him to rematch the Brazilian instantly, Pereira has now adopted go well with, claiming he’s assured of scoring a re-run for the sunshine heavyweight crown in his return to the Octagon.
“Guys, I’m again residence,” Alex Pereira mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I feel we did a fantastic job. Not solely on this combat, however we now have advanced so much. I’m studying from one another. I’m very comfortable as a result of it’s the end result I anticipated. I used to be assured on this combat. I used to be good for the combat. I skilled so much. In fact, some issues occur, however I don’t need to apologize.
“I do know we’re going to have this rematch,” Alex Pereira continued. “I’m already speaking about what I did. I already advised you concerning the combat. Lots of people protested there. I haven’t watched the combat but. I’m going to look at the combat and provides my opinion.”
