Alex Pereira
Tom Aspinall
Conversation History
“2+1=3 chama”
– via Instagram, teasing his ambition to become a three division UFC champion by moving to the heavyweight division (2 titles + 1 new title = 3).
“One poke seemed to go deeper in the eye, and he didn't even complain about it. But he grabbed the other one from the outside. We've seen worse cases where the guys kept fighting. Visibly worse. But only he knows how he really felt in there”
– commented on Tom Aspinall's eye poke incident.
“If they tell me that I've got to fight him [Pereira], I'm obviously gonna fight him. In my opinion, if I fight Alex Pereira, that's gonna be one of the toughest fights of my career, and I'll be treating it that way.Do you know what I mean? I think he's really, really one of the most dangerous guys on the UFC roster. The guy is an elite striker, absolute elite. His grappling is improving as well. I can't say good enough things about Alex Pereira; he's amazing. via TNT Sports”
“We're talking about the biggest organization in the world. I'm a guy who comes from kickboxing. I had no grappling experience. [I had] Little experience in MMA. We're talking about the highest level of the sport. If you were to put the worst guy in the UFC against me, I would be at a disadvantage [in MMA], so that makes no sense.”
“I do feel like he's fought a lot of aggressive guys, and I think Gane is a guy who will do a lot of movement.”
“I think the matchups were quite favorable to Alex Pereira up until Magomed Ankalaev. Just with the threats of the takedown, even in the first fight we didn’t really see Ankalaev really go for the takedowns too much, but I think just the threat being there, stylistically he’s a bad matchup for Pereira.”