Just seven bouts into his Ultimate Fighting Championship tenure, Alex Pereira can already call himself a two-division champion.
“Poatan” claimed the vacant light heavyweight strap with a second-round knockout of Jiri Prochazka in the UFC 295 headliner at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night. As a result, Pereira becomes the ninth fighter in the Las Vegas-based promotion to hold two belts after having claimed middleweight gold at the same venue last November.
Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC 295, with statistics courtesy of UFCStats.com.
9: UFC two-division champions.