Alex Pereira specifically spoke to UFC referee about illegal fouls before controversial Ciryl Gane KO

Sean O’Malley revealed insight into what happened backstage before Alex Pereira’s loss.

Within the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s fights, fans called out Ciryl Gane hitting Pereira at the back of the top multiple times when attempting to secure the finish.

The brand new interim heavyweight champion landed a barrage of shots that appeared to be illegal after dropping ‘Poatan’ within the second round.

With Tom Aspinall suggesting that Gane cheated again when getting his hand raised, the potential of this happening was supposedly addressed before the co-main event got underway.

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Sean O’Malley reveals backstage conversation between Alex Pereira and UFC referee

Sean O’Malley recapped his win over Aiemann Zahabi within the early hours of Monday morning following the UFC event on the White House.

Through the video on his YouTube channel, ‘Suga’ revealed some insight into what happened backstage when running through every bout on the cardboard.

O’Malley highlighted that Alex Pereira specifically had a conversation with the referee about shots landing to the back of the top before this became a talking point in his loss to Ciryl Gane.

“In the foundations meeting when Pereira was talking to the ref, they were having the translator go over back of the top,” he said.

O’Malley referenced Gane’s win over Junior dos Santos that led to similar comments about illegal fouls when confirming that that is what Pereira was talking to the referee about.

“Yeah, that’s why they were talking about back of the top.”

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The previous UFC bantamweight’s coach also noticed something price highlighting when seeing ‘Poatan’ prepare for his heavyweight debut.

Tim Welch recalled that Pereira was warming up for around three hours, but didn’t have someone that would replicate Gane’s stance with him.

“Pereira wasn’t sparring or he didn’t have any southpaw partners,” Welch said. “He’s sparring all orthodox guys. He’s got all orthodox guys in his corner.”