Alex Pereira’s UFC 313 title was a “lazy performance”

Michael Bisping questioned Alex Pereira’s desire to win at UFC 313.

Pereira (12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) lost its light heavyweight title against Magomed Ankalaev (21-1-1 MMA, 12-1 UFC) by unanimous decision on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Although he threw the 12 attempts to withdraw from Ankalaev, Pereira could not do significant damage on the feet.

Bisping expected “Poatan” more.

“From Alex Pereira, it was just a kind of lazy performance,” said Bisping on his YouTube channel. “I have not seen this true desire to want to win. Ankalaev was tall, he was strong, he was good enough to compete on his feet, and of course, he had the threat of withdrawal. And even if he did not obtain disassembly, the threat of withdrawal was as good as to obtain disassembly because it opened the strikes. This prevented Pereira from being too aggressive and did not want to move too much. For the most part, it was supported for 25 minutes, pushed against the fence, controlled a little.

“Pereira has done a very good job to stop withdrawals, beat, fight their hands. He had very strong hips, the withdrawal of the defense on the verge. But you do not win a fight by defending withdrawals. Alex Pereira, the people came to expect a ko. In the fifth round, it was as if he had to deliver here, and he did not do it. And Ankalaev did not give him an opportunity and did not allow him. Yes, the hulule crowd, he pushed it against the fence, but it’s the game. It’s mixed martial arts.

Pereira thought he should have gotten his hand, but Bisping had four laps in favor of Ankalaev. He thinks that Ankalaev beat Pereira to his own game.

“Pereira did not seem too happy. He estimated that he had a case to win it, “said Bisping. “He said you shouldn’t win a fight by pushing someone against the fence. But in the mixed martial arts, we see it happening all the time, and Ankalaev landed the biggest strokes, he was more aggressive, he was going ahead and there was just more production.

“It was a lazy performance. It was not lazy in terms of Pereira did not try, it was not lazy that he was breathless and tired and did not prepare – even if he was a little tired as the fight progressed. Ankalaev’s struggle has certainly added to that, but what I mean by lazy is only the general quantity of exit that we saw, it was simply not there. “”

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