{"id":240220,"date":"2025-10-25T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240220\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:55:08","slug":"alex-pereira-reacts-to-tom-aspinalls-injury-at-ufc-321-jon-jones-accepts-pereiras-white-house-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240220\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira reacts to Tom Aspinall&#8217;s injury at UFC 321, Jon Jones accepts Pereira&#8217;s White House challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"alex-pereira-jon-jones-tom-aspinall-ufc-321-mma-news-today-white-house-cbs-sports-oct-25-2025.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/alex-pereira-jon-jones-tom-aspinall-ufc-321-mma-news-today-white-house-cbs-sports-oct-25-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pereira isn&#8217;t impressed by the state of the UFC heavyweight division. After a deflating end to Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane at UFC 321, Pereira reminded everyone how he can inject life into the land of giants.<\/p>\n<p>Peiera kept a close eye on Saturday&#8217;s main event, a fight that disappointingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/ufc\/news\/ufc-321-live-updates-results-fight-card-tom-aspinall-ciryl-gane-analysis-highlights\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ended in a no contest<\/a>\u00a0after Aspinall suffered an eye poke in Round 1. Gane was overdelivering as the underdog before the fight-ending foul occurred. In response to the fight, Pereira offered to &#8220;make the heavyweight division great again.&#8221; Three emojis &#8212; a stone face, a bone and a white house &#8212; accompanied the caption, denoting Pereira&#8217;s desire to fight Jon Jones at the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pereira has been petitioning to fight Jones at next year&#8217;s card set to take place at The White House, which President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/president-donald-trump-confirms-ufc-white-house-date-dana-white-denies-conor-mcgregor-is-booked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump previously announced<\/a> would take place on June 14, ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/ufc-320-live-updates-results-fight-card-magomed-ankalaev-alex-pereira-2\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reclaiming the light heavyweight title<\/a>\u00a0from Magomed Ankalaev earlier this month. Pereira wants to move up to heavyweight for a potential Jones fight, one he called a &#8220;super fight&#8221; while rejecting the idea of fighting Aspinall.<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO Dana White is lukewarm on Pereira moving up to heavyweight. He also previously said there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mma\/news\/dana-white-sets-billion-to-one-odds-for-jon-jones-to-headline-ufcs-white-house-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a &#8220;billion to one&#8221; odds<\/a> he&#8217;d book Jones for the White House card. Jones continues campaigning for the fight and accepted Pereira&#8217;s callout on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alex, I&#8217;d be down to bring the highest skill level to the White House,&#8221; Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1982221392126136359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. &#8220;I appreciate the respect you showed. Let&#8217;s dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Alex Pereira isn&#8217;t impressed by the state of the UFC heavyweight division. 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