A highly anticipated trilogy fight is scheduled to go down this weekend in the main event of UFC 281. There, at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Israel Adesanya will defend his UFC middleweight title against Alex Pereira, a man he met (and lost to) twice during his days in GLORY kickboxing.
Pereira recently appeared on MMA Fighting’s Portuguese language podcast Trocação Franca with Guilherme Cruz. During that appearance Poatan claimed ‘The Last Stylebender’ had been forced into this fight.
“If he really wanted this, he would have done that as soon as I signed with the UFC,” he said.