“Why would you lie?”: Magomed Ankalaev questions Alex Pereira’s integrity after UFC PI incident<\/a><\/p>\nDeep-rooted grounds and humble gestures<\/p>\n
Everyone who knows him clearly knows how rooted he is to where he came from. Pereira has quietly given back to his hometown in Brazil. He has wholeheartedly provided food and supplies for families in need. For all the flash, there\u2019s still a fighter shaped by humble beginnings.And the story isn\u2019t over. Pereira is set to defend his light heavyweight belt against Magomed Ankalaev later this year at UFC 313. If history is any guide, the fight won\u2019t just add to his legacy. It will add another healthy bump to a fortune that\u2019s growing almost as fast as his highlight reel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira (Image Source: Getty) Alex Pereira isn\u2019t just a two-division UFC champion. He\u2019s one of the sport\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[116138,64,63,116139,786,785,116140,85,58543,787,116141,73024],"class_list":["post-180649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira-net-worth-2025","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-endorsements","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-star","tag-sports","tag-stake","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-300","tag-ufc-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649","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=180649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Alex Pereira (Image Source: Getty) Alex Pereira isn\u2019t just a two-division UFC champion. He\u2019s one of the sport\u2019s biggest box-office draws, and his bank account shows it. In just a few years, \u201cPoatan\u201d has gone from being a feared kickboxer to one of the UFC\u2019s most marketable stars, building a net worth that now sits at around $5 million.What\u2019s striking about Pereira\u2019s rise is how quickly the money followed the knockouts. Back in 2022, he shocked the world by stopping Israel Adesanya to win the middleweight title. But it was his move up to light heavyweight where the paydays really took off.<\/p>\n