Magomed Ankalaev Thinks UFC is ‘Protecting’ Light Heavyweight Champ Alex Pereira

[World eater]

Protecting Alex by already offering Ank the fight on UFC 300 that he turned down

“Protecting” in the sense that they didn’t want the fight to happen after Ank pulled out of UFC 300. Because the narrative now is that Alex is ducking, which is not true.

 

[blaseblase]

Not really true. Many muslim fighters fight during Ramadan, it is easy to check. Ankalaev fought during Ramadan in the past and so did Khabib.

This is a lie. This never happened. Stop BSing.

 

[Hdfi]

This is a lie. This never happened. Stop BSing.

Pereira fought under worse conditions with a broken toe and on short notice, but Ank who turned down multiple title shots, dares to say that the UFC is protecting him? Put him vs Pereira in the next Brazil card and let's end this insanity already.

 

[HNIC215]

Yep that's just what the sport needs. Another decision merchant with the belt. Fuck no.

Hey man, those are the rules of the game.

Rack up wins, become the #1 contender and fight for the belt... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Certain fighting styles may be uninteresting to some people, while others might find them engaging.

GSP was the perfect example of this.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Honestly I don't think Alex is one of "Dana's Boys", I think the whole reason he moved to LHW was that the UFC wanted Izzy to beat him and when they got the result they wanted they didnt want a rematch. So rather than have Alex snipping at Izzy hurting his credibility they offered him a quick path to the belt at LHW instead. I think Alex as champ has really been more someone the UFC can turn to in order to fill a PPV main when they need it not someone they have given the serious hype job to, what hype he has is mostly down to what he's done in the cage.

The issue is more that UFC do not like Ank, look what they did to Bader and Davis for example and its clear that they arent in favour of slow controlling grapplers being title contenders. Anks win at the weekend probably didnt do much to change their mind on that.

That said I suspect if there isnt some inter weightless fight(either moving to to HW, down to MW or DDP/Izzy moving to LHW) for Alex next it may well be Ank because their isnt really any other option at LHW.

 

[Iroh]

I want to see him fight Poatan, because if Poatan wins there's a lot of people that will have to stfu sir lol

That goes the other way around too lol

 

[Misanthropist]

also don't care if Poatan sits back for a bit to see how HW plays out. If he wants to take a shot at that I'd love it.

I think you mean he want to wait and see if Jon Jones actually retire after his “last” fight lol

 

[World eater]

This is a lie. This never happened. Stop BSing.

You are actually right. I read an article that said both of them fought in 2018 (or something) during this period, but it’s actually not true because Ramadan occured later that year. Goes to show how little one should trust online “articles” and I didn’t go out of my way to check it. I have to be more careful about such things in the future. Thanks.

 

[StonedLemur]

That goes the other way around too lol

It does, it certainly does sir.

 

[Harlekin]

Poatan has 6 times more fans and brings 6 times more money.
Why would they protect their investment???? NOOOO WAYYYY

 

[Myrddin Wild]

It's Ank's fault really.

If he'd just promise not to do any take downz, they'd sign teh fight immediately.