{"id":57445,"date":"2025-10-22T05:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alex-pereira-ufc-champion-reveals-fracture-and-aims-for-event-at-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:19:27","slug":"alex-pereira-ufc-champion-reveals-fracture-and-aims-for-event-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/alex-pereira-ufc-champion-reveals-fracture-and-aims-for-event-at-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira, UFC champion, reveals fracture and aims for event at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"The UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, has revealed his plans for the future, after suffering a fracture in his left foot during his recent fight.\n\nPereira, who regained the 205-pound championship by knocking out Magomed Ankalaev in just 80 seconds at UFC 320, is currently in the recovery process.\n\nThe fight was a rematch of the March encounter, where Pereira lost the title by decision. Immediately after winning the belt, he was seen wearing an orthopedic boot.\n\nDuring a public appearance in Rio de Janeiro, Pereira confirmed the fracture in his left foot. The 38-year-old fighter expects to return in eight months, and has his sights set on the UFC event at the White House, scheduled for June 14.\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. 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.<\/p><cite>Alex Pereira<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFollowing his victory at UFC 320, Pereira intended to challenge former heavyweight champion Jon Jones, but instead requested a moment of silence in memory of Jones&#8217; brother, Arthur Jones, who recently passed away.\n\nIn his statements this week, Pereira did not specify a date for his return nor a defined 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 possible 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 he would need to be ready to fight in June.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, has revealed his plans for the future, after suffering a fracture in his left foot during his recent fight. Pereira, who regained the 205-pound championship by knocking out Magomed Ankalaev in just 80 seconds at UFC 320, is currently in the recovery process. The fight was a rematch [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57445","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=57445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}