{"id":191995,"date":"2025-10-05T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191995\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:30:08","slug":"mick-maynards-shoes-whats-next-for-alex-pereira-after-historic-ufc-320-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191995\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Maynard&#8217;s Shoes: What&#8217;s next for Alex Pereira after historic UFC 320 title win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pereira regained his position as light heavyweight champion at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 320;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 320<\/a> when he put away Magomed Ankalaev in the fastest win of his MMA career.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira (13-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) needed just 80 seconds to hurt and put away Ankalaev (21-2-1 MMA, 12-2-1 UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/alex-pereira-leaves-no-doubt-050419146.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:for a TKO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a TKO<\/a> to become two-time champion in the 205 pound division, setting up some massive options for &#8220;Poatan&#8221; in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Should he stay in his current division or move up to heavyweight as he desires? Watch the video above for thoughts and analysis on his future after UFC 320.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/05\/ufc-320-matchmaker-alex-pereira-next-fight-title-win-ankalaev-jon-jones-video\/86536602007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 320 matchmaker: Who&#039;s next for Alex Pereira after title win?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 320 matchmaker: Who&#8217;s next for Alex Pereira after title win?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira regained his position as light heavyweight champion at UFC 320 when he put away Magomed Ankalaev&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,121449,786,25361,785,121450,85,787],"class_list":["post-191995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-current-division","tag-fighting","tag-magomed-ankalaev","tag-mma","tag-pound-division","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995","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=191995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}