Alex Pereira was allegedly compromised going into his first fight with Magomed Ankalaev.
Pereira put his light heavyweight title on the line against Ankalaev at UFC 313 this past March. “Poatan” suffered a unanimous decision loss against Ankalaev, where he didn’t seem his usual predatory self.
While Pereira didn’t want to make any excuses, his team repeatedly hinted that he was compromised going into the fight. Ankalaev put his title on the line in their rematch at UFC 320 earlier this month. Pereira dominantly walked Ankalaev down, dropped him and finished him with ground-and-pound in the first round.