{"id":403708,"date":"2022-01-16T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=403708"},"modified":"2022-01-16T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:23:23","slug":"alex-pereira-says-he-witnessed-arrogant-israel-adesanya-crying-outside-after-their-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/alex-pereira-says-he-witnessed-arrogant-israel-adesanya-crying-outside-after-their-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira says he witnessed “arrogant” Israel Adesanya “crying outside” after their rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira claims he left Israel Adesanya “crying outside” after knocking out ‘Stylebender’ in their 2017 rematch.<\/p>\n

Pereira (4-1 MMA) and Adesanya (21-1 MMA) have a storied history having collided twice under the GLORY kickboxing banner. The Brazilian emerged victorious in both of those matchups, the second of which came via a nasty knockout (left hook).<\/p>\n

According to the former GLORY middleweight and light heavyweight champion in Alex Pereira, the always “arrogant” Israel Adesanya was seen outside the arena streaming tears following the crushing defeat.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know if it is just with his friends, right? With the people close to him, (where) he\u2019s that arrogant guy, that annoying guy. Because every time I met the guy, it was all that arrogance, that ego, he was always like that.” <\/em>Pereira said in an interview with Marcelo Alonso of the PVT channel (Portal Vale Tudo). “Since our first fight in China, he was a guy who pissed me off a lot, from the weigh-in to the fight. Even losing, when there was the rematch here in Brazil he made a post that I don\u2019t really remember, but it was something like \u2018I\u2019ll have to beat Pereira in his backyard and then run out of the favela\u2019. It was something like that, right?’ [via translation]”<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex Pereira continued (h\/t SportsKeeda<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“I only saw him at the weigh-in and the fight. After the fight I saw him crying outside in Ibirapuera. Sitting on a low wall with his trainer – that\u2019s it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alex Pereira flying knee KO at UFC 268<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pereira made his highly anticipated Octagon debut at November’s UFC 268 event, where he scored a sensational knockout victory over Andreas Michailidis (see that here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

‘Po Atan’, 34, is now set to take on Bruno Silva<\/a> in his sophomore UFC appearance on March 12, 2022.<\/p>\n

If Alex Pereira can defeat Silva this coming Spring, he will likely be just one or two wins away from earning a trilogy fight with his longtime rival in Israel Adesanya – the UFC’s reigning middleweight champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Pereira claims he left Israel Adesanya “crying outside” after knocking out ‘Stylebender’ in their 2017 rematch. Pereira (4-1 MMA) and Adesanya (21-1 MMA) have a storied history having collided twice under the GLORY kickboxing banner. 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