The myth-making around Alex Pereira is in full-swing. The Brazilian striker signed with the UFC recently and he was immediately singled out as a threat to current UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. That notion has merit, though. Pereira is the only man to ever KO Adesanya, he did that in GLORY kickboxing in 2017. Pereira also took a decision win over Adesanya, also in GLORY, in 2016.
Pereira announced he was focusing on MMA now with a vicious KO over Thomas Powell at LFA 95 last year.
Pereira’s training partner Glover Teixiera, who faces Jan Blachowicz for the UFC light heavyweight title at UFC 267, is doing his part in selling Pereira as a monster who could potentially dethrone ‘The Last Stylebender’.