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Alex Pereira admits he wasn’t hacked when he had his infamous spat with the UFC. Earlier this year, Pereira made headlines when he teased a possible retirement after rumors that he might be getting passed over for a light heavyweight title shot in favor of Jiri Prochazka. “Poatan” quickly retraced his comments, claiming he was hacked, but speaking with Ariel …

Welcome back to the UFC, Kyle Daukaus. In a middleweight preliminary bout of UFC Shanghai on Saturday, Daukaus returned to the promotion for a short notice opportunity against Michel Pereira. Daukaus made the most of it, dropping Pereira with a big punch early in the first round, before pouncing on his opponent with vicious ground and pound before the referee …

Zhang Mingyang’s goal is to become UFC light heavyweight champion, and he has a chance to take the next step towards that goal this Saturday in his first UFC main event — which just so happens to take place a little over a month before that title is on the line. Zhang faces Johnny Walker in the UFC Shanghai headliner …

UFC 320 is nearly complete. The UFC’s pay-per-view event, which takes place at the T-Mobile Arena on Oct. 4, will be headlined by a light heavyweight title rematch between Magomed Ankalaev and Alex Pereira. But before that goes down, a pair of women’s fights will set the stage, including a matchup of ranked women’s bantamweights. On Tuesday, the UFC announced …

UFC CEO Dana White broke some big news on Tuesday as summer nears a close. UFC light heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev will make his first title defense against the man he won the belt from, Alex Pereira, in the UFC 320 main event on October 4th in Las Vegas. UFC CEO Dana White announced the news during an Instagram live …

Several of the UFC’s biggest names have their next marching orders. UFC CEO Dana White on Tuesday announced a quartet of big-time bouts for the second half of the year, including a trio of matchups for UFC 320 on Oct. 4 in Las Vegas: Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira 2 for the UFC light heavyweight title, Merab Dvalishvili vs. Cory …

Alex Pereira vs. Tom Aspinall, anyone? Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Alex Pereira finds himself at a bit of a crossroads in his illustrious combat sports career. After four title wins in less than a year, Pereira lost his world title to Magomed Ankalaev by decision at UFC 313 in March. There’s no telling if we’ll get an immediate rematch …