{"id":625255,"date":"2026-04-24T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:27:08","slug":"alex-pereiras-scary-heavyweight-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625255\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira&#8217;s Scary Heavyweight Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/tag\/alex-pereira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Pereira <\/a>showed off his frightening power as he prepares to fight at the UFC Freedom 250 card against <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/tag\/ciryl-gane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ciryl Gane<\/a> on June 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pereira will fight for the interim heavyweight title, knowing a win means he is the first UFC fighter to secure world championships in three different weight classes. The video below shows Pereira weighing around 250 pounds, as he hits power shots to the body and head of his trainer Glover Teixeira. The winner of this fight will walk away with a likely title shot against undisputed champion Tom Aspinall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampRDS\/status\/2047113206724759840\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View tweet<\/a><br \/>\nImplications<\/p>\n<p>The interim title was created following a medical setback for Tom Aspinall, who is currently recovering from bilateral traumatic Brown\u2019s syndrome. The condition was sustained during Aspinall\u2019s October 2025 clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/ciryl-gane\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ciryl Gane<\/a>, resulting from accidental eye pokes. Aspinall has reported persistent double vision and restricted eye movement, forcing him to take an extended hiatus from the cage. While Aspinall remains the undisputed champion, the winner of Pereira vs. Gane will dominate the headlines for now.\u00a0However, Tom has said he wants the winner. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, who else is going to fight? The division\u2019s on its ass. There\u2019s not many big fights to make, is there? So they\u2019ve got to do what they\u2019ve got to do. Obviously, I want to fight the winner of that. Just waiting now to get the green light, the \u2018all clear\u2019 from the doctor to start training properly again. As soon as we can start training properly again, full contact in the gym, we will be getting a fight date booked to fight the winner. As soon as the doctor clears me, we\u2019ll let the UFC know and we\u2019ll be looking to book a fight soon as possible,\u201d Aspinall said<\/p>\n<p>Find all the\u00a0latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing news<\/a>\u00a0and MMA breaking updates on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxingblitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">boxingnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira showed off his frightening power as he prepares to fight at the UFC Freedom 250 card&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-625255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625255","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=625255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}