{"id":204012,"date":"2025-10-10T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204012\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:45:06","slug":"alex-pereira-confirms-broken-foot-after-ufc-320-targets-june-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204012\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira confirms broken foot after UFC 320, targets June return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira will not be keeping the same pace to activity to kick off his second UFC light heavyweight title reign as he did in the first.<\/p>\n

Pereira (13-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) could be out of action until mid-2026 after confirming a fracture in his left foot stemming from his 80-second TKO<\/a> of Magomed Ankalaev (21-2-1 MMA, 12-2-1 UFC) this month at UFC 320. He had fears<\/a> that a mistimed leg kick in the brief bout with Ankalaev had caused serious damage, and after getting medical testing, it’s been confirmed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI did an X-Ray in Las Vegas and an MRI here and we have a fracture on my foot, but I still don\u2019t know what will happen, or how long it will take for me to recover,\u201d Pereira said at a Q&A prior to Friday’s UFC Fight Night 261 ceremonial weigh-ins (HT: MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI think it\u2019s good to focus on this White House, it\u2019s something that interests me. I think I\u2019ll focus on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pereira revealed a plan to call out<\/a> Jon Jones for a heavyweight showdown at the UFC White House event in June following his UFC 320 victory, but he wasn’t adamant about it after Jones was still reeling from news of the tragic death of his brother, Arthur.<\/p>\n

Pereira said he’s not sure who he next opponent will be, especially since his recovery timeline from the foot injury is still unclear.<\/p>\n

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What is not unclear to Pereira, however, is that he is superior to Ankalaev. He isn’t fond of the rib injury narrative that has come out on the side of the former champion in the aftermath of UFC 320.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t know, but if it was already injured, it hurt it even more,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cYou can\u2019t give excuses. I had a thousand excuses to say, but waited to say when we were about to fight again. They\u2019re already giving away (excuses) to maybe take away my merits, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Alex Pereira confirms broken foot after UFC 320, targets June return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira will not be keeping the same pace to activity to kick off his second UFC light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,786,25361,785,5772,85,787,19542],"class_list":{"0":"post-204012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alex-pereira","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-magomed-ankalaev","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-mma-fighting","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204012","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=204012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}