After a seven month period without the belt, Alex Pereira is back to being the UFC light heavyweight champion. “Poatan” now has some big plans ahead of him, and none of them involve rematching Magomed Ankalaev.

Ankalaev beat Pereira back in March at UFC 313 via decision, and then Pereira beat Ankalaev via first round KO at UFC 320 (watch the entire fight here). In Pereira’s mind, the controversial decision from the first fight added to the destruction in the second fight mean there’s no need for a third.

“In the first fight, the way I was, the way I was feeling, I couldn’t do anything and left everyone wondering who won,” Pereira told Podcast Connect Cast. “For me, I think I won this fight. But many people were left with doubts. But I said, dude, the way I was, if I was only 10% better I’d beat this guy. And more than 10%? Damn, I’ll embarrass him. And that’s what I did.”

“You don’t forget this rematch. You don’t forget the way the first fight was in doubt,” he added. “This one didn’t leave anything in doubt. So damn, what’s the point of a rematch?”

“I always talked about this fight at heavyweight,” he said of the Jones fight. “I wanted it, but then I said, ‘No, I’ll stay in my weight class.’ But then I said, ‘Damn, I’m 38 years old, you know?’ I’m also thinking about my career, right? I think this is the fight that needs to happen.”

When asked why he wanted to fight Jon Jones and not current UFC heavyweight champ Tom Aspinall, Pereira said it was a matter of star power.

“I was thinking the same thing as Jon, you know?” he said. “We have big names and hey, if I lose or he loses, nobody loses.”

Pereira left Las Vegas with a broken foot following the Ankalaev rematch, and doesn’t plan to rush back so long as the Jones fight in June is possible.

“I would wait. It would be the same wait as I just did,” he said. “I think it would be a good time to recover, because since the fight I lost to Ankalaev there were a lot of injuries.”

“Definitely,” he said of a move to boxing. “Look, I made it clear that I want to fight boxing. Same thing, right? When I got into kickboxing, they didn’t believe me. MMA, same thing. Boxing, we’ll say the same thing. But I’m used to it. I don’t care. I just want to go out there and fight. It’s not just about aiming for more money. I like a challenge.”

“I want to be the best.”