Alex Pereira has actually the needed tools to be a three-division UFC champ, according to his coach Glover Teixeira.
Pereira can currently declared world title in the middleweight and light heavyweight departments considering that going into the UFC as a 3-1 beginner in late 2021, going on to heading a few of the most historical occasions in the organisation’s history.
The Brazilian, likewise previously a two-division champ in kickboxing, will aim to extend his 205-pound champion reign this weekend at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City, Utah when he handles leading competitor Khalil Rountree in what is anticipated to be a battle that will display both fighters’ stand-up expertise.
After that? Pereira has actually made sounds about potentially evaluating himself at heavyweight– and while interim champ Tom Aspinall is at the top of the line for the next heavyweight world title bout after Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic lastly battle in New York next month, his coach Glover Teixeira states that Pereira can attain anything he sets his mind to.
“To be sincere, I’m positive that he can do anything he desires,” Teixeira stated to The Schmo, as kept in mind by MMA Junkie.
“He can battle at heavyweight and ruin the heavyweights there since the strength, the capability to check out the challengers, and in and out, and the power. He’s more effective than any heavyweight I’ve trained with. Of course, any heavyweight, Tom Aspinall, Stipe … got KO power. Alex is method up there.”
And when it concerns heavyweight champ Jones?
“There’s no contrast,” Teixeira described. “I understand Jon Jones is an excellent fighter. He’s a terrific martial artist. Similar to Alex, he studies the guy. Power, there’s no contrast. Alex has various power. Like George Foreman power. Alex is various. Timing and the power is various. He has significant power. I never ever in my life sparred with a guy that strikes as difficult.”