MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n\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 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ahead of Saturday\u2019s UFC Rio event. \u201cI think it\u2019s good to focus on this White House [date], it\u2019s something that interests me. I think I\u2019ll focus on this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his injury, Pereira felt he could\u2019ve stayed in the rematch against Ankalaev for a longer period of time. He even joked about not being able to deliver a Nate Diaz-esque move on his opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great sensation,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cWe train hard for that. We want to be in there and give our best, be the best. I landed a clean punch before the elbows and he came grabbing my legs. There was an opening and my elbow landed clean. When I landed the first one and saw blood, I started hitting and the referee stopped it. But I think it could have gone a little longer because I promised to slap his face and I couldn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pereira will be out of action until 2026, but he remains hopeful for a spot on the UFC White House card. \u201cPoatan\u201d has expressed interest in facing Jon Jones at the historic event. Whether or not the UFC brass will book the fight will be an interesting question that looms over the MMA community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira knew he didn\u2019t walk out of UFC 320 unscathed, and he has gotten an official diagnosis.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-209362","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\/209362","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=209362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}