{"id":496042,"date":"2026-02-22T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:17:08","slug":"pereira-will-milk-anything-pros-react-to-suspicious-fouls-in-michel-pereira-win-at-ufc-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496042\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pereira will milk anything\u2019: Pros react to suspicious fouls in Michel Pereira win at UFC Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Michel Pereira had to navigate a handful of illegal maneuvers to eke out a win at UFC Houston, but not everyone found his reactions convincing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the end, Pereira earned a split decision nod over Zachary Reese in the main card opener to snap a three-fight skid. It was an entertaining bout that dragged at points due to three separate instances where Pereira complained about being fouled. The first two alleged infractions were kicks below the belt, while the last saw Pereira flinching his eyes away from Reese\u2019s extended fingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple replays were shown on the Paramount+ broadcast and the results were inconclusive, though if you ask the booing fans at Toyota Center and the fighters witnessing the action, Pereira may have been guilty of embellishing the contact, as it were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC fighters Cody Durden and Azamat Bekoev roasted Pereira on social media, with Durden writing, \u201cPereira will milk anything you give him. Unreal,\u201d and Bekoev announcing Pereira as \u201cthe winner of the best male actor award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See more reactions to the controversial fight below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michel Pereira had to navigate a handful of illegal maneuvers to eke out a win at UFC Houston,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,1347,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-496042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496042","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=496042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}