{"id":175693,"date":"2025-09-28T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175693\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:07:07","slug":"alex-pereira-says-he-performed-at-40-for-first-magomed-ankalaev-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175693\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira says he performed \u2018at 40%\u2019 for first Magomed Ankalaev fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira has confirmed that he came into his first fight against Magomed Ankalaev compromised,<\/a> and claims he fought at less than half his full potential.<\/p>\n

Pereira lost his light heavyweight title to Ankalaev at UFC 313 in March via what some have described as a listless performance.<\/a> Judges saw the fight 49-46, 48-47, and 48-47 for his Russian opponent, who used a heavy clinch game with crisp striking on the exits to smother and negate the Brazilian\u2019s explosive power.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Brian Campbell, Pereira opened up on the loss and how it affected him mentally.<\/p>\n

\u201cDealing with a loss is not cool,\u201d he said through his translator. \u201cBut honestly, if I put together everything that was going on with me, and I\u2019m not gonna say it right now, it makes me happy that I was able to do the fight that I did with everything that was going on with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I was about 40% for that fight, on that night,\u201d Pereira added. \u201cAnd obviously it\u2019s gonna be much more this time. If I\u2019m only 50%, that 10% is gonna make such a great difference. I\u2019m gonna leave no doubt for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he don\u2019t like because I was able to prove that he\u2019s not that good,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a striker, he\u2019s a grappler. He\u2019s supposed to be taking me down, but I was able to show to everybody that he\u2019s not that great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m normal. He\u2019s the one that seem nervous,\u201d Pereira said of his opponent. \u201cSeem to be a little scared if you see all the videos on my channel. Like, me and the team always talking, always cool. He\u2019s the one that seem to be affected more by it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira has confirmed that he came into his first fight against Magomed Ankalaev compromised, and claims he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-175693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175693","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=175693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}