Alex Pereira claims he offered to fight Khamzat Chimaev in Brazil but that the latter didn’t accept it.
Khamzat called Pereira out following his fifth-round TKO win over Israel Adesanya at UFC 281, claiming that he’d finish ‘Poatan’ inside one round and smash him with ease.
But Pereira claims Khamzat went radio silent when he laid out his conditions to fight at light heavyweight, telling MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani that ‘Chimaev didn’t want it’ despite all his talk on social media.
“[I] went to [my] manager sand said, ‘Look, I just did a hard weight cut, I can’t make [185] for this right now, but tell the UFC I’ll challenge him to fight me at 205 at [UFC 283] in Rio.