{"id":102326,"date":"2025-08-28T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102326\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:27:12","slug":"josh-thomson-explains-why-anthony-johnson-destroys-alex-pereira-in-fantasy-ufc-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102326\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Thomson explains why Anthony Johnson \u2018destroys\u2019 Alex Pereira in fantasy UFC fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA analyst Josh Thomson believes that Anthony Johnson would\u2019ve defeated Alex Pereira in a hypothetical UFC fantasy fight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Anthony-Johnson-3.png\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Anthony Johnson\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been almost three years since Anthony \u2018Rumble\u2019 Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-rumble-johnson-has-passed-away-at-age-38-the-mma-community-reacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away<\/a>. The former mixed martial arts star was seen as a trailblazer in many ways in the sport, with his phenomenal power being seen as his greatest weapon. He fought and beat some of the very best throughout the course of his career, and he\u2019ll forever be remembered as one of the greats.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-rumble-johnsons-death-caused-by-organ-failure-due-to-non-hodgkins-lymphoma-and-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony \u2018Rumble\u2019 Johnson\u2019s death caused by organ failure due to non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, it\u2019s pretty common for fight fans to talk about dream matchups that they would\u2019ve loved to have seen in years gone by. One such example of this came recently when fans debated over who would win in a fight between Anthony Johnson and Alex Pereira.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty interesting conversation to have, and in the eyes of Josh Thomson, there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/THEREALPUNK\/status\/1960774468390785478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one clear winner<\/a>: Anthony Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m a huge Alex fan but Rumble destroys him. To fast and way more power than anyone who\u2019s already knocked Alex out. Plus, rumble could wrestle if things went south.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Thomson (@THEREALPUNK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEREALPUNK\/status\/1960774468390785478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA analyst Josh Thomson believes that Anthony Johnson would\u2019ve defeated Alex Pereira in a hypothetical UFC fantasy fight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-102326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}