{"id":777219,"date":"2026-07-03T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:17:15","slug":"alex-pereiras-sister-aline-faces-former-bellator-champ-in-karate-combat-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777219\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira\u2019s sister Aline faces former Bellator champ in Karate Combat title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Aline Pereira defends her Karate Combat flyweight title when she takes on former Bellator champion Juliana Velasquez on July 24 in Miami, the promotion announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This match marks the return of Pereira\u2014the sister of UFC star Alex Pereira\u2014to the promotion after scoring back-to-back wins in MMA, including a decision over Jade Masson-Wong on the undercard of Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano, to improve to 3-2 in MMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pereira is unbeaten under Karate Combat rules with a pair of left hook knockouts against Dee Begley and Amanda Torres, and claimed a vacant flyweight belt in a decision against Fani Peloumpi in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Velasquez makes the move to Karate Combat after a 14-4 career in MMA, a run that includes title fight wins over Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and Denise Kielholtz in Bellator, plus victories against the likes of Alejandra Lara and future UFC fighter Liang Na. She joined PFL after the promotion acquired Bellator and went 2-2 under the company\u2019s banner, avenging her most recent defeat with a decision over Ekaterina Shakalova in her final league appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Karate Combat 62 is headlined by a light heavyweight title bout between defending champion Sam Alvey and fellow UFC veteran Uriah Hall, while Oussama Assli puts his welterweight belt on the line in versus Lucas Martins the co-main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aline Pereira defends her Karate Combat flyweight title when she takes on former Bellator champion Juliana Velasquez on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-777219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777219","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=777219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}