Pereira (12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) lost his light heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev (21-1-1 MMA, 12-1-1 UFC) by unanimous decision in Saturday’s UFC 313 headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

This past weekend at UFC 313, Alex Pereira lost his UFC light heavyweight title via unanimous decision to Magomed Ankalaev. The Brazilian's performance was somewhat uncharacteristic compared to what we have seen from him typically in the UFC,

Arguably the biggest star in the UFC at the moment, Alex Pereira may want to forget the bit of promotional history he made at UFC 313. A former two-division GLORY Kickboxing champion that initially went 4-0 as a UFC middleweight before losing the division’s title in a rematch with Israel Adesanya,

"When we watched Saturday and watched him and Ankalaev fight, it gives me the idea that he has kind of maxed out the weight he can go up," Cormier said on "Good Guy/Bad Guy" with

Aljamain Sterling thinks Alex Pereira’s frequent fights led to his downfall at UFC 313, questioning if the champ fought too often.

Magomed Ankalaev knocked Alex Pereira from the top of the light heavyweight later and even farther down the latest men’s Pound-for-Pound list.

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