Pereira Faces Gane For UFC White House Interim Gold — Who Is The Ufc Heavyweight Champion
Alex Pereira enters UFC White House this Sunday for the answer to who is the ufc heavyweight champion, and the interim belt is on the line against Ciryl Gane. A win would make Pereira the first fighter in UFC history to win titles in three different weight classes, putting his move to heavyweight in direct view of the sport’s top prize.
Pereira And Gane At UFC White House
Pereira and Gane will meet in the co-main event, with the interim heavyweight title attached to the bout. The fight gives Pereira a chance to add a third division title to a run that already made him a former two-division world champion.
That matchup replaced earlier talk around Jon Jones, and it comes after Pereira said he was ready for whoever the UFC placed in front of him. He put it plainly: “Brother, I’m an employee of the UFC,” and later added, “As long as the guy has two arms and two legs, not like Goro from Mortal Kombat [and] they have 4 arms, I’m fighting.”
Aspinall’s Injury And The No-Contest
The title picture still runs through Tom Aspinall, who remains on the mend with an eye injury after his heavyweight defense against Gane at UFC 321 ended in a no-contest because of an eye poke. Aspinall has already said he wants the winner of Pereira and Gane.
That makes Sunday’s bout more than a one-off co-main event. It is the next step in sorting out a division that was left without a clean result at UFC 321, and it gives the winner a direct line toward the heavyweight champion.
Pereira’s Own Measure
Pereira said he learned about the White House fight the same way everybody else did. Asked what a third title would mean, he declined to rank it above his other work, saying, “I think everything that I achieved has its own importance,” and, “So it would not be fair for me to just say that this is the most [significant] versus the other ones.”
That restraint matches the way he has approached the matchup itself. He said he is ready to fight Gane, and the result on Sunday will decide whether he moves into a piece of UFC history that no one else has reached in three different weight classes.
