Alex Pereira\u2019s former light heavyweight foe believes his post-fight attacks against referee Herb Dean are unwarranted.<\/p>\n
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira\u2019s bid to become the promotion\u2019s first three-division titleholder fell short at the hands of Ciryl Gane at UFC Freedom 250 last month. In their interim heavyweight title fight, Gane finished Pereira by Round 2 TKO to secure a rematch against undisputed champion Tom Aspinall.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pereira has gone on a social media rampage in the weeks following the Gane fight, claiming Gane landed several illegal blows in the finishing sequence of their bout. He\u2019s repeatedly slandered referee Herb Dean and called for the UFC to part ways with the longtime Mixed Martial Arts official.<\/p>\n
Pereira has threatened to walk away from MMA<\/a> if Dean continues to officiate high-profile fights. After middleweight Michel Pereira\u2019s surprising cut from the roster earlier this week, Pereira blamed Dean\u2019s indecisiveness at UFC Baku for Michel\u2019s split from the promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of Pereira\u2019s biggest rivals thinks the former two-division champ\u2019s loss to Gane was legitimate, despite several controversial moments.<\/p>\n Jan Blachowicz calls Alex Pereira\u2019s loss \u2018completely legitimate\u2019 despite controversies<\/p>\n In a recent interview with Home of Fight<\/a>, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz reacted to Pereira\u2019s post-fight rants against Dean and Gane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhat he has to say, he\u2019s gonna use it,\u201d Blachowicz said of Pereira\u2019s post-fight remarks.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he didn\u2019t look good in this fight, with all respect to him because I like him, I very much like Pereira. He didn\u2019t look good in this fight. He was heavy, slow. Ciryl was just better, even without these illegal punches.<\/p>\n \u201cThey happened because (Gane) felt he could finish the fight,\u201d he continued. \u201cPereira was moving, so it\u2019s hard to (land) everything correctly. I like Alex a lot, but his loss against Ciryl was completely legitimate.\u201d (h\/t Bloody Elbow<\/a>)<\/p>\n Pereira defeated Blachowicz by split decision in his UFC light heavyweight debut at UFC 291. Later that year, Pereira defeated Jiri Prochazka for the then-vacant light heavyweight title at UFC 295.<\/p>\n Do you agree with Jan Blachowicz\u2019s stance on Alex Pereira\u2019s loss? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira\u2019s former light heavyweight foe believes his post-fight attacks against referee Herb Dean are unwarranted. Former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,29968,786,195028,29451,785,85,787,263470],"class_list":["post-807121","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-herb-dean","tag-jan-blachowicz","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-freedom-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807121","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=807121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}