{"id":167505,"date":"2025-09-25T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:11:07","slug":"magomed-ankalaev-fires-back-at-alex-pereira-ahead-of-ufc-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167505\/","title":{"rendered":"Magomed Ankalaev fires back at Alex Pereira ahead of UFC 320"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019re just over a week out from the highly-anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight title rematch between champion Magomed Ankalaev and former two-division kingpin Alex Pereira, set to headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/391313\/ufc-320-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a> inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada \u2014 and the tension is already spilling over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Pereira has never been known for much trash talk and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/6\/11\/24176382\/why-is-jamahal-hill-now-ranting-about-ufc-300-knockout-loss-alex-pereira-maybe-he-just-woke-up-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more trolling<\/a>, the Brazilian star has turned up the heat this time around. Earlier this week, he accused Ankalaev of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/391245\/alex-pereira-unloads-on-s-t-champion-magomed-ankalaev-for-hiding-from-ufc-pi-encounter-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiding<\/a>\u201d from him at the UFC Performance Institute before labeling the Russian \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/391245\/alex-pereira-unloads-on-s-t-champion-magomed-ankalaev-for-hiding-from-ufc-pi-encounter-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a shitty champion<\/a>\u201d and \u201ca chump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That was enough to get a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis clown who I\u2019m fighting said I\u2019m hiding from him, I\u2019m giving him a rematch and he should be very grateful,\u201d Ankalaev wrote on social media. \u201cI whooped him for five rounds, and I did everything I wanted to him during the fight. Let\u2019s focus on fighting and not trash-talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ankalaev didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis guy has been knocked out three times in his career, I\u2019ve never been knocked down,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis time I will give him his fourth knockout \u2014 end of story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With just 10 days to go until UFC 320, expect more verbal barbs before these rivals finally settle the score in the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To see who else is fighting at UFC 320 click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/23\/24472980\/ufc-320-fight-card-start-time-date-location-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-las-vegas-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re just over a week out from the highly-anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight title rematch between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-167505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167505","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=167505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}