{"id":187292,"date":"2025-10-03T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:32:06","slug":"if-alex-pereira-was-at-100-id-probably-kill-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187292\/","title":{"rendered":"If Alex Pereira was at 100%? \u2018I\u2019d probably kill someone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has been made of Alex Pereira claiming he was at 40% of his potential<\/a> coming into the first Magomed Ankalaev fight. The former middleweight and light heavyweight champion says he\u2019s never been fully healthy, and that may be a good thing for the sport because of what he\u2019d do at 100%.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with McKenzie Pavacich, \u201cPoatan\u201d discussed his health after a seven month break<\/a> and fighting to his full ability.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been at 100%,\u201d Pereira said through a translator. \u201cI think if I was at 100% in fighting, I\u2019d probably kill someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what percentage he was at coming into UFC 320, he shrugged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m much better than the last fight. I can\u2019t wait to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Pereira isn\u2019t looking for a quick knockout win against Ankalaev.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all honesty, if I could pick the outcome, I\u2019d want a five rounder where I can dominate, where I can leave no doubts,\u201d the knockout artist said. \u201cAnd you know, people are gonna say, \u2018Oh, what about the knockout or submission?\u2019 Sure, great. But if I can dominate, if I can control the five rounds and not leave any doubt, that\u2019s what I would really envision and want in a perfect world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wins and losses are clearly important to \u201cPoatan,\u201d but it all feeds into his ability to inspire and help people<\/a> in his home country of Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people go through hardships, go through a lot of crazy things,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cAnd to be able to help them? In the institute that I just opened in Brazil, we\u2019ve got already 706 kids in two or three months. And not just through martial arts. We have English classes. We have computing classes. All those things that I know are going to be important in those kids\u2019 lives. So to be able to inspire them and be able to motivate them and do all that, I think about that a lot. And to be able just to give back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in the day my brother and I would go over there and there was Capoeira classes, and we would just sit there and watch and try to do the moves when we got back home. Because we couldn\u2019t pay to train over there. Now I go over there, there\u2019s over 700 kids. They\u2019re training kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, English classes, computing classes, and they don\u2019t pay anything for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stories like that are why Pereira will continue to be a fan favorite, win or lose. And if he does lose at UFC 320, there\u2019s always more title opportunities yet another class up at heavyweight.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much has been made of Alex Pereira claiming he was at 40% of his potential coming into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,638,82,92726,702],"class_list":["post-187292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-start-time","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292","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=187292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}