{"id":432916,"date":"2023-04-09T01:21:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T05:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432916"},"modified":"2023-04-09T01:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T05:21:20","slug":"adesanya-kos-his-nightmare-pereira-at-ufc-287","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/adesanya-kos-his-nightmare-pereira-at-ufc-287\/","title":{"rendered":"Adesanya KO\u2019s his nightmare Pereira at UFC 287"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya viciously knocked Alex Pereira at UFC 287 in Miami in front of Dana White and Donald Trump and is again the champion of the middleweight division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ISRAEL ADESANYA JUST SLEPT ALEX PEREIRA TO FINALLY BEAT HIM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC287?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC287<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQwzlLW0LA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lQwzlLW0LA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinninBackfist\/status\/1644926295074037763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pereira was in attack, and Adesanya seemed in danger against the cage. Still, then Israel at that moment threw a powerful overhand right that dazed Alex and punched him with his right again to knock him unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>The victory was after 4 minutes and 21 seconds in the 2nd round.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira beat Adesanya at UFC 281 in November to win the title with a knockout in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round, and the fight today was a rematch. Israel won for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time against Alex as the Brazilian beat him also outside of the UFC in their 2 kickboxing matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hard to imagine a better feeling \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC287?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC287<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ops6sTX9gA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ops6sTX9gA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1644929239802843136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Last Stylebender (24-2) was only beaten by Pereira in his 25 fights in the middleweight. The other loss was against Jan Blachowicz but in the light heavyweight division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya viciously knocked Alex Pereira at UFC 287 in Miami in front of Dana White and Donald Trump and is again the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432918,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18690,18689,18148,17286],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[18693,18692,1093,18691],"acf":{"announce":"Israel is the new middleweight champion!","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432916"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432916"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}