Alex Pereira at heavyweight? UFC champ ‘Poatan’ has fun staredown with Ciryl Gane

UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira didn’t look too undersized when facing off with a top-ranked heavyweight.

UFC light heavyweight champion [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] didn’t look too undersized when facing off with a top-ranked heavyweight.

Pereira (9-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC), a former middleweight champion, defeated Jan Blachowicz then knocked out Jiri Prochazka to claim the 205-pound title this past November at UFC 295.

Pereira’s coach and mentor Glover Teixeira claimed that “Poatan” is disciplined enough to compete at heavyweight, and we got a small taste of what that could be like when he faced off with former interim champ [autotag]Ciryl Gane[/autotag] at the Ares FC 18 event, which takes place Friday in France.

Check out their random face-off below courtesy of La Sueur:

It took Pereira just seven UFC fights to become a two-division champion, the fewest in company history. The former two-division Glory Kickboxing champion’s MMA resume already includes wins over notable names like ex-champs Prochazka, Blachowicz, and Israel Adesanya, as well as current UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland.

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