{"id":695057,"date":"2026-05-26T05:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695057\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:57:14","slug":"bisping-finds-pereiras-sparring-footage-with-teixeira-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695057\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisping finds Pereira&#8217;s sparring footage with Teixeira concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bisping expected <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/alex-pereira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alex Pereira;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Alex Pereira&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Alex Pereira<\/a> to look a lot more comfortable while sparring Tallison Teixeira.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his interim heavyweight title fight against Ciryl Gane (13-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in the co-main event of UFC Freedom 250 at the White House on June 14, Pereira (13-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYQaeeADSHL\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sparred rising heavyweight Teixeira;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;sparred rising heavyweight Teixeira&quot;}\" class=\"link \">sparred rising heavyweight Teixeira<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is going to put on 30 pounds, something like that,&#8221; Bisping said of Pereira on his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Is9blbsbHY?si=XqQ_F6F1SJ2jZldK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube channel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube channel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">YouTube channel<\/a>. &#8220;So that means he&#8217;s going to be slower. It means he&#8217;s going to be fighting bigger guys, and it means he&#8217;s probably going to be fighting people that can punch harder. What do you do to prepare for such a thing? You spar other heavyweights, and lately some footage has come out. I&#8217;ve got to say, it looks a little concerning for Alex Pereira.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping expected Alex Pereira to look a lot more comfortable while sparring Tallison Teixeira. Ahead of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,29968,786,41896,785,85,787,19542],"class_list":["post-695057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ciryl-gane","tag-fighting","tag-michael-bisping","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695057","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=695057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}