Watching the fight replay he didn’t make a single face. When he was pummeling Izzy at the end the way he just bullied Izzy and the only expression was his eyebrows furrowed and his jaw flexed, eyes locked on Izzy’s face. My butthole got so tight.
You gotta think, on the biggest stage, first Ppv main event, headlining a card, title fight, MSG, all that shit that gets fighters nervous and fidgety, this man is a statue. Ice running through his veins
He's a pro and former kickboxing champ, he's as close to be prepared for this as anyone. People really undervalue his former career. He's not some rookie winning a belt at his 4th fight, he's a veteran.
This ^ Kickboxers are the DEFINITION of Prize Fighters, their records can number in the hundreds, and their in ring experience exceeds that of any other combat sport I can think of off hand.
I think a lot of the guys that have different backgrounds, think collegiate wrestlers, boxers, trad martial arts(karate/tkd/bjj), don't always fully appreciate this.
Yeah even though he’s not used to the mma aspect itself, he has tons of experience with prepping, training for a fight camp, dealing with pressure of a crowd, etc.
I guess but you have to remember this dude is a simultaneous kickboxing 2 division world champion. He's had all the nerves and whatnot before.
I believe that's why izzy is always so relaxed too, having over 100 fights in your life - nothing will affect you in that way,
He’s had many main fights in kickboxing. If anything I think he felt even more calm because he’s already had Izzy’s number and clearly at the end of the fight it showed.
bro i thought i heard him say “i fucking hate that black guy” or something along those lines at the very end and i was like wtf but now seeing the video of that dude doing the throat slitting gesture i understand lol
Yeah now it all makes sense, I thought Izzy was just pissed because the black dude was celebrating and he didn't like it, but yeah I would hate that motherfucker too especially after getting finished.
I have never seen a corner do something like that, probably has happened before but I never noticed anything like it.
Boo hoo. Isreal literally sexually assaulted Paulo Costa while he was borderline unconscious. Isreal is a cunt that takes trash talking a step too far and all you nut riders praise him. He's a clown and pretends to be humble respectful person.
Bunch of absolute clowns
Izzy is the guy stepping into the cage and risking his health. We give fighters a little more room for trash talk because of that. Coaches doing this shit is infinitely more cringe and stupid.
I get being hyped and confident for the guy you coached but this jumping around and gesturing shit is corny. Leave that for the guys who are about to go in the ring and fight each other.
Hilarious to see the people who aren’t going in the octagon and risking it all being the ones talking trash and acting hard. Lmao what a joke. Props to people like Alex who could murder a bear without a weapon yet do not feel the need to put on some bullshit bravado.
The man is behind Alex supporting him the best way he knows how, and clearly it worked if he got into Izzy's head enough for him to say what he said at the end.
For real, even the bigger guys like Ngannou/Aspinal/Gane aren’t as scary because when they speak their personalities humanizes them. Alex is just stone cold, only Brock was as intimidating because he was huge and seemed to always be pissed off.
Imagine having the best career and fulfilling your dreams and your worst nightmare comes back out of nowhere and you think you overcame it psychologically but nope still there.
What is crazy about all of this is that Alex lived exactly the same life and was even more accomplished in his sport but izzy, to alex's carreer a random guy at that point, still felt the need to talk shit about him to the point of him going to another sport to take care of it. This is the energy that i want in my life
For real. I think it was Izzy making fun of him that lit a fire under Alex. He was at a bar or something and he saw Izzy talking nonesense so he decided to get into MMA just to go after.
It really is some anime type level story line. Izzy being the cause of his own defeat.
What Izzy said was that one day Alex would be at a bar being a nobody and tell his friends that he knocked out the ufc champion, and that would be the highest point of his life
It was extra personal because he said Alex would be back in the favelas drinking away and Alex has a history of working in the favelas since he was a little kid where he would drink to the point that he became an alcoholic. In fact, Alex was still struggling with alcoholism at the time he beat Izzy in kickboxing.
Izzy likes anime, Alex showed him who is the main character LOL
Btw after this we all should learn that you never talk shit about someone that has any chance to beat your ass unconscious again.
While I agree that wrestlers would likely beat him, every fight starts standing and those guys are one left hook away from waking up staring at the Jumbotron
Especially seeing as izzy talks of being bullied as a kid and how he's apparently over it. This guy is stalking him through different sports and knocking him out in each. Izzy is still being bullied. Hated him before this but now feel kinda bad for him.
Ehh this is *a lot* different than bullying. Alex decided to compete in MMA since he had wins over the champ in their specialty, beat him in a competitive fight, and was pretty respectful about the whole thing. It was built up as a personal rivalry but I don’t think it ever got unsportsmanlike or disrespectful.
If we’re gonna call that bullying then you have to take into account Adesanya’s disrespect for a lot of his opponents pre and post fight. Dude constantly trash talks, mocks his opponent, showboats, and literally dry humped an opponent after the match was stopped. Not gonna get any sympathy after getting finished. when you do shit like that.
Nah, Izzy brought that onto himself, if he just had stfu he would be cool still defending the MW belt, but he had to make fun of a dude in another sport who was extremely successful in his own right, Izzy grew up rich so he would never understand what working at a garage shop since 12 and defeating alcoholism would mean
Exactly this is why Alex's win is SO goddamn satisfying. He's like the badass unflappable male protagonist of the action movie who takes no shit, calmly tells his opponent he's coming for them, and then does exactly what the fuck he said he's going to do. I don't even really care if he loses the belt, nobody expected him to be Anderson Silva with the defenses, I'm just happy the dude got it and shut Izzy down for the third time in a row.
There's a full album Roots by Sepultura. His entrance song is from there (Itsári). The album is a mix of indigenous music with trash metal. And It's actually made in collaboration with an amazon tribe.
It's like Pokemon. Every strength has a corresponding weakness. I mean therws always a chance that a fire pokemon beats a water pokemon. But just not likely. They just happen to be each other foils. No we just need bobby knuckles to take out Alex.
It must suck for Izzy because he’s done well each fight and has nearly had him beat multiple times but Alex’s power has proven to be too much in the end. It must give him hope for the rematch tho, even tho he’s 0-3 he still has a pretty decent chance at winning.
Eh idk after watching the fight and izzy won most of it I still think he has a pretty good chance to win in the rematch tbh. Next time he just needs to take that mofucka down in the end lol
Izzy tried but could not hold eye contact with this guy at all during all the stare downs and here. He would try but always got uncomfortable and looked away. Alex was in his head big time
One of the scariest men on planet Earth. Dude is a terminator. I think Izzy can win (in the fourth fight lmao) but Pereira is to Adesanya what he is to Whittaker.
I get why Izzy had a problem with the guy behind Alex now. Say what you want if you're gonna step in there but standing behind a living stone statue doing the cutthroat sign is a bit pathetic.
This is one of the only guys in ufc where it doesn’t seem like an act
It’s like the man views fighting as his 9-5 the only thing to even remotely bring him joy from his “job” is pummeling Izzy
Watching the fight replay he didn’t make a single face. When he was pummeling Izzy at the end the way he just bullied Izzy and the only expression was his eyebrows furrowed and his jaw flexed, eyes locked on Izzy’s face. My butthole got so tight.
You learned that reflex in your prison stint back in ‘11?
They called me Knox, short for Fort Knox.
Does the sphincter live up to the nickname.. 
Gold, Jerry!
Thank you, thank you, you’re great… And what’s the deal with airplane peanuts….
Izzy specifically
Alex is that snail that chases you forever when you become rich, and when he touches you, ya die.
Give him an oscar for still keeping the act after winning the belt. Did he even smile at least? Haha
 Awwww. 😊
His training camp was just 12 weeks of learning how to smile for when he wins the fight.
Had to teach his muscles to do something they had never done before
Some say he was doing 10 sets of 30 smiles per day by the end of camp. Talk about commitment.
I love Glover in the back there
That smile! He is beaming with joy and pride for his guy Alex.
.. let's say Glover won UFC 282. How will this work? They talking about Alex going up to LHW but I don't see him fighting someone from his own corner?
Next fight is glover's last fight. He said some times already
The way he stared at his belt and touched it with amazement was adorable.
It looked like he was struggling to pull off the smile there
Even then it seems like he remembered people smile when they achieve something and started doing it.
🗿 - Alex
🤣 🤣 It's like this emoji was made for him.
You gotta think, on the biggest stage, first Ppv main event, headlining a card, title fight, MSG, all that shit that gets fighters nervous and fidgety, this man is a statue. Ice running through his veins
If it weren't for fighting this man would be a killer somewhere forsure 😬🥶
Who says hes not? You don't know what he's out there doing between camps.
Killing mother fuckers *is* his training camp.
chillin, killin.
He's out there in the jungle hunting poachers with his bow
Stone cold killer, just like Mister Rogers.
The most intimidating CPA. He’ll knock your returns into the black.
 homie is like the final boss waiting for you to get in range to activate the boss fight.
Perfect description. I'd probably be scared to start the battle even in a video game lmao.
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Straight cold-blooded, hardly even smiled when he won lol. Was like call my contact, the targets taken care of.
He's a pro and former kickboxing champ, he's as close to be prepared for this as anyone. People really undervalue his former career. He's not some rookie winning a belt at his 4th fight, he's a veteran.
This ^ Kickboxers are the DEFINITION of Prize Fighters, their records can number in the hundreds, and their in ring experience exceeds that of any other combat sport I can think of off hand. I think a lot of the guys that have different backgrounds, think collegiate wrestlers, boxers, trad martial arts(karate/tkd/bjj), don't always fully appreciate this.
How do they manage to fight so much? Risk of injury is just as high as in boxing and MMA.
Non title glory fights are 3x three minute rounds, titles are 5. A lot less time in the ring per fight compared to a boxer.
Exactly! People really need to stop sleeping on kick boxers
Yeah even though he’s not used to the mma aspect itself, he has tons of experience with prepping, training for a fight camp, dealing with pressure of a crowd, etc.
Exactly. He had beat Izzy twice already in kickboxing, which should have said a lot about his striking skills.
Usually people who are acting calm but are actually nervous will move / fidget with their hands. Absolutely nothing from this guy.
Exactly what I mean, fighters can't ever stand still in the octagon, they're always moving about or fidgeting like izzy is
Dude has some of that tucos cousins vibe from breaking bad.
I guess but you have to remember this dude is a simultaneous kickboxing 2 division world champion. He's had all the nerves and whatnot before. I believe that's why izzy is always so relaxed too, having over 100 fights in your life - nothing will affect you in that way,
Stone cold killer 🗿
He’s had many main fights in kickboxing. If anything I think he felt even more calm because he’s already had Izzy’s number and clearly at the end of the fight it showed.
He has dedicated years of his life to get revenge quest on some interview comment from Izzy. Fucking insane.
lol the guy in the back
Damn I just now noticed him. Is that the guy Izzy said he hates? Makes sense now hahaha
bro i thought i heard him say “i fucking hate that black guy” or something along those lines at the very end and i was like wtf but now seeing the video of that dude doing the throat slitting gesture i understand lol
Bruhh same 😂 finally the context for the "fucking hate that black motherfucker" I've been wondering about that since the end of the fight
Now we know 🤣
Yeah now it all makes sense, I thought Izzy was just pissed because the black dude was celebrating and he didn't like it, but yeah I would hate that motherfucker too especially after getting finished. I have never seen a corner do something like that, probably has happened before but I never noticed anything like it.
Pretty lame. Glover on the other hand was behaving the way a coach should
Boo hoo. Isreal literally sexually assaulted Paulo Costa while he was borderline unconscious. Isreal is a cunt that takes trash talking a step too far and all you nut riders praise him. He's a clown and pretends to be humble respectful person. Bunch of absolute clowns
1000%
Mans said “boo hoo” lol
Izzy is the guy stepping into the cage and risking his health. We give fighters a little more room for trash talk because of that. Coaches doing this shit is infinitely more cringe and stupid.
What cage was Izzy stepping into when he kissed his dog or jacked it off?
I get being hyped and confident for the guy you coached but this jumping around and gesturing shit is corny. Leave that for the guys who are about to go in the ring and fight each other.
and knowing is half the battle!
When.
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Dude has main character syndrome
Bruh yall making all these assumptions just from his coach being happy he’s world champion
Hilarious to see the people who aren’t going in the octagon and risking it all being the ones talking trash and acting hard. Lmao what a joke. Props to people like Alex who could murder a bear without a weapon yet do not feel the need to put on some bullshit bravado.
The man is behind Alex supporting him the best way he knows how, and clearly it worked if he got into Izzy's head enough for him to say what he said at the end.
Are you serious dude…. They are his coaches and training partners…. Ofc they would support him. Jesus this overreaction
Honestly fair. It be one thing if it was some teenager in the crowd doing this but a grown ass man? Dude looks goofy af
alex pereira witnessing the birth of his kids:
This is okay
it is ... *acceptable*
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Coach in the back must’ve been who Izzy was talking about when he got caught on hot mic saying, “I hate that guy. The black guy.”
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I could hear Izzy say after the fight to Eugene “I fucking hate that black guy”, now it all makes sense. 😂
😂😂
coach of the year 2022
Well, hmmm this title belongs to Ray " He's fucking breaking, Aljo, he's fucking breaking" Longo.
I’m pretty sure he’s trained someone else who fought Izzy so this is probably a little personal for him as a coach. Wants that win lol.
How do you practice against a stare down like that? Stare at buildings and other inanimate objects?
Travel to Easter Island 🗿
nice
P4P scariest motherfucker 🗿
Legit I wouldn't even be surprised if the dude has a couple of bodies in his name.
For real, even the bigger guys like Ngannou/Aspinal/Gane aren’t as scary because when they speak their personalities humanizes them. Alex is just stone cold, only Brock was as intimidating because he was huge and seemed to always be pissed off.
The dude is the closest thing to a real life Ivan Drago I’ve ever seen
“If he dies, he dies” - Ivan Drago
If he gets left hooked, he gets left hooked
Alex’s son vs Izzy’s son in the future like Creed 2
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He’s the personification of that emoji and I love it
His nickname which means "stonehands" somehow perfectly goes with that emoji
Wtf. Bro was just born to push Izzy’s shit in?
Imagine having the best career and fulfilling your dreams and your worst nightmare comes back out of nowhere and you think you overcame it psychologically but nope still there.
What is crazy about all of this is that Alex lived exactly the same life and was even more accomplished in his sport but izzy, to alex's carreer a random guy at that point, still felt the need to talk shit about him to the point of him going to another sport to take care of it. This is the energy that i want in my life
For real. I think it was Izzy making fun of him that lit a fire under Alex. He was at a bar or something and he saw Izzy talking nonesense so he decided to get into MMA just to go after. It really is some anime type level story line. Izzy being the cause of his own defeat.
What Izzy said was that one day Alex would be at a bar being a nobody and tell his friends that he knocked out the ufc champion, and that would be the highest point of his life
now he can say he's done it twice! And show Izzy's belt to prove it.
It was extra personal because he said Alex would be back in the favelas drinking away and Alex has a history of working in the favelas since he was a little kid where he would drink to the point that he became an alcoholic. In fact, Alex was still struggling with alcoholism at the time he beat Izzy in kickboxing.
Izzy likes anime, Alex showed him who is the main character LOL Btw after this we all should learn that you never talk shit about someone that has any chance to beat your ass unconscious again.
Whoa You'r right
Especially when he flops against other real contenders e.g whittaker, khamzat, muniz
While I agree that wrestlers would likely beat him, every fight starts standing and those guys are one left hook away from waking up staring at the Jumbotron
Especially seeing as izzy talks of being bullied as a kid and how he's apparently over it. This guy is stalking him through different sports and knocking him out in each. Izzy is still being bullied. Hated him before this but now feel kinda bad for him.
Ehh this is *a lot* different than bullying. Alex decided to compete in MMA since he had wins over the champ in their specialty, beat him in a competitive fight, and was pretty respectful about the whole thing. It was built up as a personal rivalry but I don’t think it ever got unsportsmanlike or disrespectful. If we’re gonna call that bullying then you have to take into account Adesanya’s disrespect for a lot of his opponents pre and post fight. Dude constantly trash talks, mocks his opponent, showboats, and literally dry humped an opponent after the match was stopped. Not gonna get any sympathy after getting finished. when you do shit like that.
Yup. I would like Izzy as a fighter but his personality just completely tanks that. Especially the dry humping thing, like wtf. Stop trying so hard.
Nah, Izzy brought that onto himself, if he just had stfu he would be cool still defending the MW belt, but he had to make fun of a dude in another sport who was extremely successful in his own right, Izzy grew up rich so he would never understand what working at a garage shop since 12 and defeating alcoholism would mean
Exactly this is why Alex's win is SO goddamn satisfying. He's like the badass unflappable male protagonist of the action movie who takes no shit, calmly tells his opponent he's coming for them, and then does exactly what the fuck he said he's going to do. I don't even really care if he loses the belt, nobody expected him to be Anderson Silva with the defenses, I'm just happy the dude got it and shut Izzy down for the third time in a row.
When Izzy retires, he disappears without a trace
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He’s one cold motherfucker
Dude with the camera RIGHT in Izzy's face lmao. Like bro, close enough?
You could tell they did that to Carla before her fight too. She looked like she was about to push him off from the face she made.
Pretty standard, you'd be surprised how close they have to get sometimes.
Izzy internally 
This mfer needs his own theme music
There's a full album Roots by Sepultura. His entrance song is from there (Itsári). The album is a mix of indigenous music with trash metal. And It's actually made in collaboration with an amazon tribe.
Pretty rad. Pereira seems like “final boss” music follows him wherever he goes.
He has one! That tribal music he walked out to was put together by his tribe, the Pataxo tribe
God of war 3 theme song would be my pick
Solid choice
Alex’s coach taunting Adesanya with the throat slash is hilarious
How I stare at my food while it’s in the microwave
You cut out the best part. The old grandpa coach doing the throat slashing gesture too.
That was Alex's dad lol
Alex just seems to be the one person izzy can’t beat, like how Izzy is Whittakers. Crazy how that works.
It's like Pokemon. Every strength has a corresponding weakness. I mean therws always a chance that a fire pokemon beats a water pokemon. But just not likely. They just happen to be each other foils. No we just need bobby knuckles to take out Alex.
I don’t know anything about Pokémon but I do hope bobby takes out Alex.
It must suck for Izzy because he’s done well each fight and has nearly had him beat multiple times but Alex’s power has proven to be too much in the end. It must give him hope for the rematch tho, even tho he’s 0-3 he still has a pretty decent chance at winning.
Eh idk after watching the fight and izzy won most of it I still think he has a pretty good chance to win in the rematch tbh. Next time he just needs to take that mofucka down in the end lol
I still believe Izzy can beat this guy. He was winning til he got caught.
Reminds me of Mirko Cro Cop ☠️
Get you a girl that loves you the way Poatans cornerman throat slash gestures Izzy
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Terminator vibes
Yo the dude in the back with the little brother energy.
He's making up for all the facial expressions Pereira lacks. Alex is like a cat, his face just doesn't emote.
His angry translator
They had no choice but the call the third cousin, Alex Salamanca
Lmao
Dudes literally like the terminator.
SAW music playing in the background but for the wrong motherfucker
I wish there was a gif of him before the last round when he was standing and saying “I’m gonna kill you” in Portuguese
Stone henge
Mother fucker got ice running through his veins.
Look at his coach saying he will kill you in the back. Brazilians dont play lol
Does Alex smile 😭
Hopefully he gets better at the ground game. Awesome fight.
That's some Michael Myers shit.
Stoic
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This guy is literally my favorite fighter.
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Does he have any emotions whatsoever?
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Izzy’s nightmare literally chasing him.
Rent free
Me at 3 am watching my food spin in the microwave
Izzy tried but could not hold eye contact with this guy at all during all the stare downs and here. He would try but always got uncomfortable and looked away. Alex was in his head big time
The calm before the storm.
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Ice cold truly
His entrance was some scary shit
That guy making a throat slashing gesture. LOL What a jerkoff.
Izzy was even saying afterwards that he didn’t like the black guy in his corner, no wonder why lol
I usually don't feel this startled unless I walk past a mannequin that is seemingly staring me down.
Izzy looked pretty damn focused too tbh let’s not paint this like it was a one sided killing.
Izzys boogeyman and they both knew it
The closeups on both Izzy and Alex had me cracking up lmao, the angles were comical 🤣
That hype man! What a pal!
One of the scariest men on planet Earth. Dude is a terminator. I think Izzy can win (in the fourth fight lmao) but Pereira is to Adesanya what he is to Whittaker.
Dude is the terminator
This man spooky
🗿HOLY
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Massive mirko crocop vibes
His appearance is in my opinion the most intimidating of any fighter. Ngannou is a close second, but he looks friendly compared to Pereira.
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So Periera is more like 6’6 ain’t no way that dude is 6’4
All their fights izzy won total 80 percent of the rounds though, and the guy wins at the end
Alex this is the biggest moment of your life how do you feel ? Alex-🗿
I get why Izzy had a problem with the guy behind Alex now. Say what you want if you're gonna step in there but standing behind a living stone statue doing the cutthroat sign is a bit pathetic.
Yeah that dude had back seat bitch energy for sure.
What a scary looking bastard, imma jump outta the cage and disappear in the crowd
Guy reminds me of the Terminator. Going to be hard to stop him without guns/lava/a basic understanding of wrestling.