Ex-Champ Admits Public Complaints His Own, Comes Clean on ‘Hacking’ Claim

According to Alex Pereira now, the only person hacking into his account was himself.

In June, “Poatan” posted on social media that he was not pleased with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and that he was considering retirement. The Brazilian backtracked shortly thereafter, claiming another person had hacked into his account to make the questionable, since-deleted post.

On Wednesday, the former two-division champ admitted that his previous statement of his account being hacked was hogwash. Appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show, while being translated by coach Plinio Cruz, Pereira owned up to his false statement from a few months ago. His “thoughts of not fighting anymore” were his own, before…