{"id":317368,"date":"2025-11-29T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317368\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:46:08","slug":"real-or-fake-alex-pereira-crushes-sparring-partner-with-massive-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317368\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Or Fake? Alex Pereira Crushes Sparring Partner With Massive KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alex Pereira is one of the scariest fighters to ever step foot inside of the Octagon, but he\u2019s also pretty intimidating outside of it. This includes the gym, where Pereira is known to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/12\/28\/24330765\/video-ufc-champion-alex-pereira-lands-infamous-left-hook-forces-sparring-partner-to-walk-off\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mix it up in sparring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This week, Pereira was back on the mats and eager to showcase his elite level striking once again. Fortunately for the UFC light heavyweight champion, he was presented with a sparring partner more than willing to test his luck. Pereira felt challenged and began to unload some clean shots to the head and body. That was until Pereira closed the distance and unleashed a left hook that left his sparring partner knocked out cold (shown below).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But, wait. Was this all real?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The video has already made the rounds on social media and the MMA community is torn. While it appears some of Pereira\u2019s punches do land, many believe the knockout sequence was staged. Some say there\u2019s even more footage which shows Pereira dropping this dude another time with body shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out some of the reaction below and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAnyone who thinks this is real needs to give their head a wobble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKnocking out your sparring partner is lowkey scummy and I love Alex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe guy challenged him. He wanted that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNothing serious here. They are just messing around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat guy a fighter? LOL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf you challenge someone then start laughing mid fight you know you f\u2014ked up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dLmao that\u2019s the fakest shit ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira is one of the scariest fighters to ever step foot inside of the Octagon, but he\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-317368","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-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317368","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=317368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}