Former UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira is happy to draw Jan Blachowicz in his light heavyweight debut. Pereira (7-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) meets Blachowicz (29-9-1 MMA, 12-6 UFC) in the UFC 291 co-main event on July 29 at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. Pereira will get to test himself against former light heavyweight champ Blachowicz right off the bat – an old foe of his training partner, Glover Teixeira, who dethroned Blachowicz with a dominant submission to become champ at UFC 267. “My next opponent will be Jan Blachowicz,” Pereira said on his YouTube channel . “He is a dangerous guy, an experienced guy, and a guy we know because of my training partner, Glover Teixeira, who fought him. I’m sure training hard and together with Glover, he will pass me a lot of stuff for sure like he is always doing.
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