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The UFC’s breakout star of the last two years is no longer a champion.
Alex Pereira fell to challenger Magomed Ankalaev in a light heavyweight championship fight Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in the main event of UFC 313. Ankalaev claimed a unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47) in a fight that left fans unsatisfied.
Ankalaev mostly won as a result of pressuring Pereira, who never unleashed enough to even give himself a chance at the type of knockouts that defined his tenure as champion since 2023.
“He didn’t do anything,” Pereira griped of Ankalaev through a translator while still in the octagon.