month-old challenge<\/a> from UFC Middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev \u2014 and surprisingly, he\u2019s open to meeting \u201cBorz\u201d on his own turf.<\/p>\n\u201cThat guy says he wants to fight with me, he\u2019s gotta get out there, understand?\u201d Pereira said. \u201cHe\u2019s far, but I could challenge fight in his area if he wants. Let me look at you directly, let\u2019s fight in your area. Let\u2019s fight in grappling. And another thing, we can fight in the UFC. UFC is doing BJJ, right? UFC BJJ. Let\u2019s do that then, let\u2019s make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pereira even upped the ante by promising to donate all proceeds to charity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother thing,\u201d Pereira added. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how much I\u2019ll make – good money, though, you know who I am, the money is good\u2014that money will be donated 100 percent to charity. That work for you? Chama.\u201d<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s not mixed martial arts (MMA), a grappling match between these two would still be must-see TV \u2014 a clash of styles between Chimaev\u2019s elite wrestling and Pereira\u2019s rapidly improving ground game.<\/p>\n
And with both men interested, UFC BJJ<\/a> might have just found its first blockbuster match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPoatan\u201d vs. \u201cBorz\u201d in Brazilian jiu-jitsu? Out of nowhere, the Brazilian powerhouse responded to a month-old challenge from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,74670,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-280644","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-bjj-news","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280644","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=280644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}