nearly had a confrontation at the UFC Performance Institute<\/a> last week. But despite the animosity brewing, Pereira says this is not the biggest fight of his career. Poatan maintains that his win over Israel Adesanya remains the highlight of his career, even if he beats Ankalaev in their rematch.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think [it will be the more satisfying],\u201d Pereira said when asked about beating Ankalaev. \u201cNothing compares to that win over Adesanya, with the whole history in kickboxing, everything that I went through. A lot of people think sometimes to promote a fight, you\u2019ve just got to say a lot of things and have this animosity, and that\u2019s not what it is. You\u2019ve got to have that history, that background, and so [Ankalaev] is doing it all wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should Pereira defeat Ankalaev and reclaim the light heavyweight title, he will join Randy Couture as the only two-division champion who also had multiple title reigns. And he may be looking to add on to that. Pereira has already teased a move to heavyweight before, and in the midst of his weight cut for UFC 320, Poatan acknowledged he doesn\u2019t have much time left at 205 pounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll have to see,\u201d Pereira said when asked about moving up to heavyweight. \u201cObviously, my body gets heavier. I don\u2019t know how long I can cut to 205. We\u2019re just going to have to see and take it fight by fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira doesn\u2019t have time for Magomed Ankalaev or his coaches\u2019 nonsense. This weekend, Pereira rematches Ankalaev in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-182347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182347","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=182347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}