Chael Sonnen continues to be hopeful that Alex Pereira might pose Jon Jones issues after UFC 313.
Pereira (12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) misplaced his gentle heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev (21-1-1 MMA, 12-1-1 UFC) by unanimous resolution on this previous Saturday’s important occasion at T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Had Pereira received, many thought a brilliant struggle in opposition to UFC heavyweight champion Jones can be on the horizon. Whereas that’s off the desk for now, Sonnen thinks that regardless of dropping, Pereira shut down a criticism about his sport when he stuffed all 12 of Ankalaev’s takedown makes an attempt.
“You don’t get very far once you begin speaking about Alex Pereira vs. Jon Jones,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel. “You simply don’t get there as a result of we all know that Jon can throw him down and beat him up. Like, that’s simply one thing that Jon does so nicely. He can throw folks down after which beat them up.
“Effectively, you go watch this struggle, and also you go, ‘Hey, you realize what? It seems that previous Alex Pereira isn’t really easy to take down.’ Alex Pereira actually confirmed some stuff. That total narrative that he can’t wrestle and he can’t defend is now gone. Ankalaev revealed his plan and that was to take him down – his plan failed.”
Nonetheless, Daniel Cormier disagrees. He thinks Pereira’s loss to Ankalaev confirmed that he’d have hassle coping with the energy at heavyweight.
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