{"id":773894,"date":"2026-07-02T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773894\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:39:09","slug":"jon-jones-details-perfect-storm-behind-alex-pereiras-ufc-white-house-defeat-came-in-too-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773894\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones details \u2018perfect storm\u2019 behind Alex Pereira\u2019s UFC White House defeat: \u2018Came in too big\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results were spectacular. Say what you will about ducking Tom Aspinall<\/a>, but Jones utterly dominated both Ciryl Gane and Stipe Miocic<\/a> in his pair of Heavyweight bouts. Conversely, Alex Pereira was fighting at 205-pounds less than a year prior to his UFC White House<\/a> battle versus \u201cBon Gamin.\u201d Though he was able to pack on size (ask O\u2019Malley)<\/a>, Jones questions if \u201cPoatan\u201d put on too much weight while analyzing the \u201cperfect storm\u201d that was the Ciryl Gane knockout loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like Pereira, he came in too big,\u201c Jones told Red Corner MMA<\/a>. \u201dI think he would have been better off fighting around 230-235, keeping that speed. I feel like his power would have possibly translated over. In the fight you just saw him, he was waiting. He was second-guessing things, questioning things, and that\u2019s one of the worst things you can do in a fight. It feels like a nightmare when you\u2019re out there in front of your opponent, and you know the moves, know you should throw the punch or kick or go for that takedown \u2014 then you just don\u2019t. You find yourself out there watching instead of doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had it happen to me many times in practice, and I felt like that\u2019s what happened with Alex. He never really got his ball rolling. Ciryl Gane came at him in a Southpaw stance, which also challenges Pereira. He was fast, powerful, unorthodox. It was the perfect storm for Pereira, and he didn\u2019t survive it.\u201c<\/p>\n

Having fought Gane himself and considered fighting Pereira, Jones has a strong understanding of the matchup. Though it doesn\u2019t look likely right now, there\u2019s still a fair shot Jones vs. Pereira happens somewhere down the line. If that marquee matchup ends up booked, expect a lot of leftie fighting from \u201cBones\u201d \u2026 and perhaps a slightly slimmer \u201cPoatan?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The results were spectacular. Say what you will about ducking Tom Aspinall, but Jones utterly dominated both Ciryl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-773894","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\/773894","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=773894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}