Alex Pereira already has a light heavyweight title defense lined up for next month, but that isn’t stopping ‘Poatan’ from chomping at the bit to challenge middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis.
In August, ‘DDP’ scored his first successful defense of the 185-pound crown, submitting Israel Adesanya in the fourth round of their UFC 305 headliner in Perth. Chances are, a rematch with the man he took the title from earlier this year, Sean Strickland, is next on his itinerary, but could we see ‘Poatan’ sneak in and snatch the opportunity away from ‘Tarzan’ in 2025?