{"id":50371,"date":"2025-10-13T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pereira-reveals-fracture-and-hints-at-fight-at-ufcs-white-house-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:34:16","slug":"pereira-reveals-fracture-and-hints-at-fight-at-ufcs-white-house-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/pereira-reveals-fracture-and-hints-at-fight-at-ufcs-white-house-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereira Reveals Fracture and Hints at Fight at UFC&#8217;s &#8216;White House&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alex Pereira Eyes Return at White House Event After Fracture<\/h2>\n\nUFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira revealed his plans to focus on a possible fight at the UFC event at the White House in June, this after suffering a fracture in his left foot during his recent title fight.\n\nPereira, with a record of 13-3, regained his 205-pound championship by knocking out Magomed Ankalaev in just 80 seconds at UFC 320 in Las Vegas. This matchup was a rematch of the March encounter, where Pereira lost the belt to Ankalaev by decision after five rounds. Immediately after regaining the title, Pereira was seen with a walking boot on his left foot.\n\nDuring a public appearance in Rio de Janeiro this week, Pereira confirmed the fracture in his left foot. The 38-year-old fighter expects to return in eight months, coinciding with the UFC&#8217;s visit to the White House on June 14.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I had an X-ray in Las Vegas and then an MRI in Brazil. A fracture in my foot was shown, but I still don&#8217;t know what will happen or how long the recovery will take. I think it&#8217;s good to focus on this fight [at the White House]. Now, that&#8217;s something that interests me.<\/p><cite>Alex Pereira<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlthough he initially planned to challenge Jon Jones after his victory at UFC 320, Pereira opted for a moment of silence in memory of Jones&#8217;s brother, Arthur Jones, who recently passed away. Pereira and Jones have shown mutual interest in facing each other in the past.\n\nIn his statements this week, Pereira did not provide a specific timeline for his return nor mentioned a particular opponent. There are several options for his next challenge, including a title defense against contenders like Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka and Carlos Ulberg, or a move up to heavyweight to face the winner of this month&#8217;s title fight between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane. Pereira has experienced bone fractures in the past and has returned within a timeframe similar to what it would take to fight in June.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pereira Eyes Return at White House Event After Fracture UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira revealed his plans to focus on a possible fight at the UFC event at the White House in June, this after suffering a fracture in his left foot during his recent title fight. Pereira, with a record of 13-3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6166,9757,228,5311],"class_list":{"0":"post-50371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-alex-pereira","8":"tag-fractured-foot","9":"tag-ufc","10":"tag-white-house"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}