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Ali Abdelaziz Suggests ‘High Level’ Opponent for Alex Pereira After Dominant UFC 303 Victory

Allan Binoy
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Ali Abdelaziz Suggests ‘High Level’ Opponent for Alex Pereira After Dominant UFC 303 Victory

Ali Abdelaziz is pushing for Alex Pereira to take on Magomed Ankalaev!

The Brazilian is fresh off a dominant win against Jiri Prochazka at UFC 303, who he took out with ease, showing off his superior striking and power. Ankalaev, meanwhile, has been wanting this fight for a long time now and Abdelaziz has just suggested him as the high level opponent that ‘Poatan’ needs to fight.

Ali Abdelaziz is the manager of the likes of world champions like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev, and Kamaru Usman and as such, he knows how to make big fights for his fighters.

So it comes as no surprise that the Egyptian executive is hyping up the Dagestani light heavyweight to convince Pereira to give him a title shot.

Magomed Ankalaev is the best light heavyweight on the planet him and Alex Perreira is a high level fight, big respect to the champ

 

Abdelaziz does make a strong case; Ankalaev is definitely one of the best fighters in the division. However, the champ himself has called him a ‘boring’ fighter, so he will have to do something to prove the Pereira wrong.

Earlier, following Pereira’s impressive win, Ankalaev had fired up a series of tweets where he had claimed that he would test the champion’s chin and not go for takedowns.

However, right now, Pereira is riding a high unlike any other. He remains steadfast in his ambition of capturing the heavyweight title and become the company’s first ever three division champion.

And given the way he planned on finishing off Prochazka, Jon Jones should be really worried.

Poatan deciphered Prochazka after watching him train on Instagram

While the UFC account showed Alex Pereira singing and dancing in the locker room ahead of his fight, the real story was very different.

They were coming up with last-minute game plans that ended up winning them the fight. His coach Plinio Cruz made a big revelation after the win in a backstage interview about how the team looked at Prochazka’s video.

Pereira figured out Jiri was putting his hand down after checking kicks and this is where the champion decided to kick about 5 ft higher in the midst of all those leg kicks.

“When I showed the video to Alex, Alex let me see the video again, he goes when he’s doing this he’s putting his hands down. I’m gonna kick this guy in the head.”

To be fair though, Jiri does keep his hand down a lot, even when he’s not checking kicks, so the tactic might have worked either way. The Czech fighter depended on his head movement to evade punches but there’s so only so much you can do about a kick when your hands are down.

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Allan Binoy

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Allan Binoy is a MMA journalist at The SportsRush. Taken to the sport in 2015, thanks to a certain Conor McGregor, Allan has himself dabbled in the martial arts. And having graduated from Loyola College, Chennai, with a degree in English Literature, he has learnt to use his love for language to have a voice in the MMA community. Allan has been writing about the gladiatorial stories for more than three years now and has pursued excellence at a number of reputable media organizations, covering every UFC PPV in the last couple of years. In addition to this, the southpaw is also a semi-professional soccer player for Diego Juniors FC in Pune, playing in the Pune Super Division League.

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