Israel Adesanya has faith in which Alex Pereira can recover in a rematch for the title against Magomed Ankalaev.
After three defenses of the semi-weighing title, Pereira (12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) was destroyed by Ankalaev (21-1-1 MMA, 12-1-1 UFC) in the main event of UFC 313 in March. Although he stopped the 12 demolition of Ankalaev in the fight, he was finally surpassed by blows in a defeat by unanimous decision.
Ankalaev and Pereira were expected to go back, but according to Ankalaev, “Poatan” is not yet ready for revenge. Yes Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2 is the next fight, Adesanya believes that his former opponent can avenge defeat.
«I am very proud of him, what he has done. It is as if he had created a monster. He demonstrated why he is who is in both categories of weight. I'm looking forward to seeing the next fight between him and Ankalaev. I think it will be another difficult fight, But I think it can achieve it, because it was not a total failure in that fight. In addition, it is exponentially improving«.
Adesanya knows a couple of things about how to avenge defeats. Pereira was the one who ended his first medium -weight reign by knocking him out in UFC 281, but Adesanya managed to take revenge with a knockout in his revenge in UFC 287. Two kickboxing fighting and two MMA fights later, Adesanya and Pereira have made things clear.
