Alex Pereira Teases Future Move Up To Heavyweight To Become Triple Champ

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Alex Pereira has already won UFC titles in two weight classes, but the current light-heavyweight champion may now be considering a bid to make history by winning the heavyweight belt too. Talk of the 36-year-old moving up to heavyweight began when he made a cryptic post on social media a few days ago which read, ...

Alex Pereira has already won UFC titles in two weight classes, but the current light-heavyweight champion may now be considering a bid to make history by winning the heavyweight belt too.

Talk of the 36-year-old moving up to heavyweight began when he made a cryptic post on social media a few days ago which read, “30 + 300 = 3.”

Some people quickly interpreted that to mean he was intending to put on 30lbs in order to fight current interim-heavyweight champ Tom Aspinall at UFC 300 in order to become a 3 division champion.

Pereira has since appeared to back off from that speculation, but while he now seems content to continue at 205lbs, he has teased the possibility of moving up to heavyweight in the future.

“I fought at middleweight, and I had to reset my body to go up to fighting at light heavyweight,” Pereira told The Mac Life. “I’m a fighter. I’ll fight anybody, anywhere.

“I have the height and the size of a heavyweight, but this is a thing that’s got to be programmed, put some work in. It’s not just something I jump in on. I want to make things the right way. I can definitely fight at heavyweight, maybe some day in the future. But it’s got to be something that’s well planned. So right now I’m focused on my light heavyweight reign.”

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