Magomed Ankalaev wants to settle his business with Alex Pereira.<\/p>\n
\u201cBig Ank\u201d beat Pereira for the light heavyweight strap at UFC 313<\/a>, but was unable to defend it against \u201cPoatan\u201d in their UFC 320 rematch<\/a>. The Brazilian later vacated his title to chase a third belt at 265 pounds, only to come up short against Ciryl Gane at UFC White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHis business with me isn\u2019t settled at all,\u201d Ankalaev told Bostanov<\/a>. \u201cYou could call what happened a lucky punch. That\u2019s how he beat me. I think they knew I had some kind of injury. I don\u2019t think any fighter had ever rushed at me like that before. If he hadn\u2019t known I was injured, I don\u2019t think it would have ended so quickly. We wanted Pereira and I wanted that rematch. I am doing a lot to get that fight, we even said that even if it\u2019s in the heavyweight division, we can make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Pereira may wind up coming to him with a second straight loss at heavyweight.<\/p>\n The light heavyweight title would eventually find the waist of Carlos Ulberg, who stopped Jiri Prochazka on one knee at UFC 327<\/a>. As for Ankalaev, he was able to slug his way back into the win column by capturing a technical knockout victory over Bogdan Guskov at UFC Abu Dhabi last July<\/a>.<\/p>\n As of this writing, Ankalaev remains unbooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magomed Ankalaev wants to settle his business with Alex Pereira. \u201cBig Ank\u201d beat Pereira for the light heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-940558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940558","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=940558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}