Adesanya couldn’t wait for UFC title rematch with Pereira -
He will be back in the Octagon on Saturday for UFC 287 in Miami for a rematch for the middleweight championship.
Maybe one reason Adesanya wants this fight against Pereira so quickly was because he was beating the Brazilian 39-37 on all three scorecards entering the fifth and final round at Madison Square Garden in New York. Pereira could only win by knockout, and that’s what he got 2:01 into the round. Pereira has never lost to Adesanya, who was born in Nigeria but lives in New Zealand. Before the two met in November, Pereira defeated Adesanya twice in kickboxing.
“He was a dominant champion,” Pereira said through an interpreter. “Maybe he could’ve done two or three before that, but he wanted to do it right away. I said, ‘No problem.’”
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