Alex Pereira didn’t look like himself in his first meeting with Magomed Ankalaev earlier this year.
Perhaps part of that can be attributed to Ankalaev being a difficult matchup, but according to the Brazilian, there were more factors involved.
"Honestly, I was about 40 percent for that fight, on that night," Pereira said through a translator on"The Brian Campbell Experience" (transcription via MMAjunkie.com). "And obviously it's going to be much more this time. But if I'm only 50 percent, that 10 percent is going to make such a great difference.