{"id":387542,"date":"2026-01-02T20:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:32:06","slug":"stop-sending-brian-ortega-photos-of-alex-pereira-kissing-tracy-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387542\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop sending Brian Ortega photos of Alex Pereira kissing Tracy Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, appears to be in a relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/410294\/red-hot-manel-kape-makes-waves-in-flyweight-contender-pool-following-ufc-vegas-112-rankings-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked UFC flyweight<\/a>, Tracy Cortez. I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s anything worth discussing \u2014 and this is coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/1\/10\/24340615\/ufc-fighters-urged-crap-before-they-compete-after-scientists-link-possible-rectum-brain-connection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a hack who writes about pooping habits<\/a> \u2014 but both fighters went public with their romance and UFC fans won\u2019t shut up about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What does that have to do with UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/409489\/report-brian-ortega-finally-makes-move-to-lightweight-draws-renato-moicano-at-ufc-326-on-march-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a>, Brian Ortega?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ortega and Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/12\/27\/23527798\/an-emotional-tracy-cortez-opens-up-about-ufc-orlando-removal-it-broke-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were previously a couple<\/a> but have since parted ways. That hasn\u2019t stopped UFC fans (some might call them \u201ctrolls\u201d) from \u201ctrying to get a rise\u201d out of Ortega. If you look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/briantcity\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">any of his recent Instagram posts<\/a>, there are several \u201cchama\u201d GIFs of Pereira in the comment section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cT-City\u201d is mildly amused \u2014 but not interested in the latest tea.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, appears to be in a relationship with ranked UFC flyweight, Tracy Cortez.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-387542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387542","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=387542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}