Alex Pereira doesn\u2019t buy into the conspiracy theory going around that Tom Aspinall is faking his eye injury.<\/p>\n
That theory, which continues to exist<\/a> despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, has the UFC heavyweight champion going through unnecessary medical procedures in order to \u2026 what? Not fight and lose out on earning millions? Anger UFC fans and mess up the heavyweight division? There\u2019s not even a sane argument to be made for why Aspinall would be doing this. That\u2019s how dumb the line of thinking is.<\/p>\n Yet here we are, in a world where people are still suggesting Aspinall\u2019s eye injuries from a horrible double eye poke<\/a> from Ciryl Gane are overblown.<\/p>\n Alex Pereira doesn\u2019t buy into that stuff.<\/p>\n \u201c[Some] didn\u2019t believe him, others just trashed him,\u201d Pereira said in a video with Valter Walker (via Red Corner MMA). \u201cLook, I don\u2019t mess around with health, man. I see it, like, this guy\u2019s a fighter, he\u2019s not gonna fake something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201dBut the guy is back now after surgery. I saw the photo<\/a> that he posted. Man, his eye was all red. It even scared me a bit. The eye is really delicate, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n