{"id":398424,"date":"2026-01-09T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398424\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:03:07","slug":"ufc-power-couple-alex-pereira-and-tracy-cortez-break-up-after-nye-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398424\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC power couple Alex Pereira and Tracy Cortez \u2018break up\u2019 after NYE fling"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC\u2019s newest power couple,<\/a> light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira and women\u2019s flyweight Tracy Cortez, is no more according to a new post from \u201cPoatan.\u201d<\/p>\n

With no New Year\u2019s Eve fight card in North America to ring in 2026, fight fans have been left to make their own entertainment. That\u2019s led many to obsess over Pereira and Cortez, who seemingly announced they were \u2018a thing\u2019 on Instagram with a little smoochy NYE photo shoot. For the next eight days Tracy and Alex did a number of social media posts together, including one viral video that hit millions of views where Cortez asked Pereira to marry him.<\/p>\n

Alas, what you see on Instagram is often more beautiful than what\u2019s happening in real life. In a new post, Pereira announced that he and Cortez were \u2018going their separate ways.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you my fans for all the love,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI would like to communicate with you guys that even though me and Tracy shared great moments together, we decided it would be better for the both of us to go our separate ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then the stoic UFC champ\u2019s Instagram added a video of him running in the pouring rain. It posted a picture of him looking out over the city skyline deep in thought. Honestly, it\u2019s all a bit on the nose. You may have noticed we used a whole lot of \u2018quotes\u2019 around statements \u2018claims\u2019 that Pereira and Cortez were \u2018together,\u2019 and that\u2019s because we think the whole thing was a \u2018PR-mance.\u2019<\/p>\n

Alex Pereira is not some emotional teenager that\u2019s going to post through every fling in life. He has a whole team surrounding him, and they\u2019re always hard at work setting up skits and making meme videos. Based on Pereira\u2019s posting history, this whole \u2018relationship\u2019 is very possibly not real and all for the clicks.<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure: that viral video where Tracy Cortez asks a sleeping Pereira to marry her and he wakes up and replies \u2018Chama\u2019 \u2014 that is a skit. If you\u2019re on X tweeting about how it proves Tracy was clingy and that\u2019s why Alex broke up with her? Just stop. Go outside. Touch grass. Dig a hole in the snow if you have to. Log off the internet and let your brain cells start firing on their own a little without the glowing rectangle pressed against your slack jawed face.<\/p>\n

The UFC returns to action on January 24th, and thank God because we\u2019re all very clearly getting desperate for real fight news. Until then, I guess we\u2019ll keep you updated on this totally real relationship and oh so tragic break-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC\u2019s newest power couple, light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira and women\u2019s flyweight Tracy Cortez, is no more according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-398424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398424","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=398424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}