In November 2002, at the UFC 281 event, Alex Pereira became a new champion of UFC weight Middleweight. In the match against the opponent of the Debt of Israeli Adesanya, Pereira won TKO in the 5th half, thereby transforming into a surprise victory over the highest -payer UFC.
Few people know to win, Alex Pereira has experienced the process of training and pressing many risks. Under usual conditions, he weighs about 104kg, equivalent to a Heavyweight boxer. But to play in Middleweight, he had to squeeze weight 84kg, ie down about 20kg.
At the weight test for the UFC 281 event, Alex Pereira reached a weight of 83.8kg. But only 1 week after playing, he immediately jumped to 103kg, close to his normal weight. It also means that within 7 days, the UFC champion has increased up to 20kg, an unbelievable number for ordinary people.
Alex Pereira's weighing story is not too strange to the fighters for many years in UFC. Fans Charles Oliveira must still remember the image of Brazilian boxers walking on the scale, because he had to squeeze very deep weight to be eligible for competition. Earlier, Oliveira was stripped of the championship belt because of overweight.
For experienced fighters to squeeze and maintain good physical condition like Pereira, cutting weight before the competition is familiar to them. But in the case of Charles Oliveira, weighing can become a double -edged sword with fighters who do not master the weight control.
Within the framework of UFC, the boxer has never recorded complications for weight, but in other tournaments like One Championship. In 2015, One once recorded the death of the boxer Yang Jian Bing because he was shocked during the weight pressing. At that time, Yang was only 21 years old, and his death became a wake -up scene with many boxers.