{"id":165107,"date":"2025-09-24T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165107\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:55:07","slug":"ufc-320-alex-pereira-says-coward-magomed-ankalaev-hid-from-him-at-performance-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165107\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 320: Alex Pereira says ‘coward’ Magomed Ankalaev hid from him at Performance Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira has little respect for Magomed Ankalaev ahead of their UFC 320<\/a> main event. Pereira’s sentiment stems from a recent visit to the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas, where he claims Ankalaev physically hid from him.<\/p>\n

Pereira and Ankalaev are preparing for their rematch on Oct. 4. That preparation recently brought them to the UFC PI. On Tuesday, Pereira uploaded a video<\/a> detailing his time there. “Poatan” claims he saw Ankalaev’s coach, but the UFC light heavyweight champion was absent. Only later was Pereira informed that Ankalaev had allegedly hid from him.<\/p>\n

“Something funny happened just now when I was leaving the PI. I saw Ankalaev’s coach there. I stayed myself, I didn’t see Ankalaev there,” Pereira said, according to transcriptions from\u00a0Championship Rounds<\/a>. “… When I got to the car, someone from my team was still inside, and he heard the girl from the PI say to Ankalaev, ‘He can come now, he’s already left.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Damn, he was hiding. They hid the guy in a little room. This guy thinks I’m going to run into him and start fighting. Do I look stupid, bro?”<\/p>\n

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Pereira insists he would’ve acted cordially had they met each other. However, Pereira takes issue with his rival’s alleged cowardice.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I would’ve handled it better. But the fact that the guy hides in a room because I’m in the same place as him,” Pereira said. “He’s a chump. I’ll keep to myself. I’ll never pick a fight with the guy. Never start something. Of course, unless he comes at me. I have to defend myself, too. But what kind of champion is that? A shit champion. I know that’s harsh, but he’s a shitty champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pereira is making final arrangements for their rematch in Vegas. In March, Ankalaev beat Pereira via unanimous decision, taking the light heavyweight title and snapping Pereira’s five-fight winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s shown he’s a coward,” Pereira said. “We’ll see. He’s hiding now. We’ll be in the cage, locked in there. Unless he jumps the fence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira has little respect for Magomed Ankalaev ahead of their UFC 320 main event. Pereira’s sentiment stems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-165107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}