Israel Adesanya’s next opponent takes out the UFC middleweight champion’s mickey with a bizarre workout video that shows him working out while riding a hoverboard
- Alex Pereira mocks the UFC champion with an MMA training video posted on social media
- Pereira shared the video of himself on a hoverboard to make fun of Adesanya
- Pereira and Adesanya will fight for the middleweight championship on November 12
One of the most dangerous fighters in the UFC has issued a hilarious challenge to UFC middleweight champion Israel ‘The Last Stylebender’ Adesanya ahead of their upcoming title fight at Madison Square Garden on November 12.
Alex Pereira, who is a fierce rival to Adesanya, is currently training for the matchup and posted a video of himself on social media sparring on a hoverboard and daring his opponent to try the same.
The caption read: ‘Training with an easy tennis ball is easy!’ Pereira wrote. “I want to see him train boxing on top of a hoverboard.”
The video was posted in response to a clip Adesanya had posted on his YouTube channel days earlier, in which he dodged tennis balls to improve his reaction time.
There is no love lost between the two middleweights who have met twice in kickboxing, with Pereira emerging victorious both times. In fact, the Brazilian is the only man to knock out Adesanya.
And, as good as Adesanya may have looked during his reign as the king of the middleweights, Pereira is arguably a superior striker and has been finishing off opponents in spectacular fashion as he climbed the ranks.
Israel Adesanya (left) reacts to his victory over Jared Cannonier for the UFC middleweight belt
Alex Pereira celebrating his recent knockout win over Sean Strickland. Pereira will face Adesanya for the middleweight championship on November 12
‘The Last Stylebender’ has declared his rival the ‘most overrated fighter in the UFC’ and believes he will make beating him ‘look easy’ when he faces him in November.
The Brazilian fighter is also not impressed with Adesanya.
“Of course, he would never support me, but what he thinks or doesn’t think doesn’t change anything for me,” Pereira said. ‘You have to ask him if he was impressed when I knocked him out. He wasn’t impressed?
Pereira is coming off a win over American Sean Strickland in July at UFC 276. The former two-division kickboxing champion earned a first-round finish over Strickland, knocking him out with a powerful left hook.
Adesanya’s latest outing featured as the main event on the same card as the Pereira fight. He easily defeated Jared Cannonier in a unanimous decision win.
Pereira knocked out Andreas Michailidis of Greece at UFC 268. The 35-year-old Brazilian posted a 3-0 record in the organization and won Performance of the Night two of three times.
MMA fans have had a field day on social media with Pereira’s latest training routine on a hoverboard.
“I think he really got into MMA just to troll Izzy,” one Twitter user posted.
‘What did Izzy do to make Alex so mad? Why does he always have to beat Izzy at everything? another said
‘This man is clowning! I love watching him! a third replied.
“I’m going to go with Alex Pereira, because I’m going to make it look easy,” Adesanya said.
‘Yeah, right now just enjoy the build-up fights, enjoy the build-up wins, you know? Yes, that is overrated.
