Alex Pereira has shared his candid and honest response to a possible future boxing fight against Jake Paul.
Last week it was shockingly announced that Jake Paul‘s next boxing outing will happen against former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua, after his scheduled fight against Gervonta Davis was canceled.
Paul’s list of potential replacements included several MMA fighters including Nate Diaz, and even former heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou, who Paul seems to have sparked a feud with.
Nonetheless, someone who seemingly wasn’t on his list this time around was UFC light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira.
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Following his most up-to-date win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, the 28-year-old called for a future fight against ‘Poatan’, which got here as an enormous surprise on the time.
And although conversations never really looked as if it would get going, the web sensation turned boxer dropped a bombshell statement more recently, claiming that talks went down between the 2 teams.
In line with Paul, the Brazilian champion was ‘down’ for the fight, but him being locked into his UFC contract got here because the stumbling block.
And now ahead of the 28-year-old’s fight against Joshua, Pereira has given his candidly honest thoughts a couple of potential fight against ‘The Problem Child’.
“Yeah, I feel it’d be a (hard) challenge for each of us, I do very well in boxing sparring, I actually have won pro boxing fights so I feel whenever you do things that you simply enjoy doing you do them well, in order that’s what I take into consideration boxing myself,” Pereira told TMZ Sports.
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Ever since his emergence within the boxing world, Paul has claimed that someday he hopes to change into a world champion in the game.
Despite that, though, the 28-year-old hasn’t been fighting the proper opponents to set himself up for a world title fight. Nonetheless, with a win over Joshua, he would undoubtedly open up a door for a possible future title fight and a likelihood to meet his dream.