{"id":56971,"date":"2025-10-21T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pereira-reveals-fracture-eyes-ufc-event-at-white-house-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:31:13","slug":"pereira-reveals-fracture-eyes-ufc-event-at-white-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/pereira-reveals-fracture-eyes-ufc-event-at-white-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereira reveals fracture, eyes UFC event at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alex Pereira Focused on White House Event After Fracture<\/h2>\n\nUFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira revealed his focus on a possible fight at the White House event in June, 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 fight was a rematch of their March encounter, where Pereira lost the belt by decision after five rounds.\n\nAfter the victory, Pereira was seen using an orthopedic boot on his left foot. In a public appearance in Rio de Janeiro, the 38-year-old fighter confirmed the fracture, indicating that he 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\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I had an X-ray in Las Vegas and then an MRI in Brazil. It showed a fracture in my foot, 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,&#8221; Pereira declared.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Alex Pereira<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nInitially, Pereira was planning to challenge Jon Jones after his victory at UFC 320, but opted for a moment of silence in honor of the recent passing of Jones&#8217;s older brother, former NFL player Arthur Jones. Pereira and Jones have expressed interest in facing each other in the past. Jones, who retired from MMA earlier this year, has announced his intention to participate in the White House event.\n\nThis week, Pereira did not provide an estimated date for his return nor revealed his possible 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 the fight between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane.\n\nPereira has experienced bone fractures previously, and has managed to recover in a timeframe similar to what it would take to fight in June.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pereira Focused on White House Event After Fracture UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira revealed his focus on a possible fight at the White House event in June, after suffering a fracture in his left foot during his recent title fight. Pereira, with a record of 13-3, regained his 205-pound championship by knocking out [&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-56971","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\/56971","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=56971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}