Alex Pereira might not be long for the light heavyweight division.
“Poatan” regained the 205-pound belt with an emphatic first-round technical knockout of Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC 320 headliner at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night. While the Brazilian initially had plans to issue a post-fight callout to Jon Jones, he instead opted to ask for a moment of silence to honor Jones’ late brother, Arthur, who passed away on Friday.
"With all due respect, with all the respect I have for the situation, and I've said this in the back: a lot of people try to create a lot of stuff around this," Pereira said said through a translator at Saturday’s post-fight press conference.