One key fighter on the UFC 321 card doesn’t imagine Alex Pereira would stick round at heavyweight for greater than an excellent battle.
Pereira has publicly expressed curiosity in a conflict with Jon Jones on the UFC White Home card. “Poatan” has even stated he’d reasonably battle “Bones” than the winner of the heavyweight title bout between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane. Up to now, Jones has been receptive to the thought of combating Pereira.
Throughout a UFC 321 media day session, Jailton Almeida shared his stance on Pereira’s need to battle Jones. He’s not anticipating a everlasting heavyweight transfer for Pereira (h/t MMAJunkie).
“I believe the speak about him and Jon Jones is nice. A superfight between the 2 could be a incredible factor for them, for us as followers, and for the UFC,” Almeida stated. “However the division has been in such turmoil the previous few months, like let him do a superfight. If he finally desires to return to the division, high quality, however I believe he’s extra trying in the direction of one thing large like that superfight and never essentially being a part of the division.”
Almeida has an enormous heavyweight battle on Saturday. He’ll collide with Alexander Volkov and if the winner can impress, then a title alternative towards the winner of Aspinall vs. Gane could loom. Volkov’s most up-to-date opponent was Gane, and Almeida believes his UFC 321 foe ought to’ve been awarded the win on that night time.
“I do know that it’s a special factor to observe a battle judging it than watching it simply as an informal fan or simply as somebody who likes fights, however after watching the battle, I actually thought that Volkov gained,” Almeida stated.
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