Jan Blachowicz is still a little salty over his loss to Alex Pereira.
Through five fights in the light heavyweight division, ‘Poatan’ has looked damn near unstoppable, but if there’s one man who came close to besting the Brazilian boogeyman, it was Blachowicz.
Welcoming Pereira to the division in July 2023, Blachowicz largely leaned on his world-class wrestling, but ultimately came up short on the scorecards, suffering a razor-close split decision loss. In the eyes of two judges, Pereira’s strike total of 112 to Blachowicz’s 82 was enough to negate the Polish powerhouse’s seven and a half minutes of control time throughout the three-round affair.