Alex Pereira is thought to bulk up to 220 pounds between fights and cut a whopping 35 pounds to compete at middleweight.
The heavy-hitting knockout artist and former two-division GLORY champion recently fought at UFC 281 where he defeated longtime kickboxing rival Israel Adesanya via fifth-round TKO to win the middleweight title, becoming the first man to stop ‘The Last Stylebender’ in kickboxing and MMA.
UFC color commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan thinks Pereira deserves full credit for the victory but that he is too big for middleweight and has a massive advantage over the rest of the division, labeling his cut to 185 ‘basically sanctioned cheating’.