{"id":484758,"date":"2024-06-30T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T09:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484758"},"modified":"2024-06-30T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T09:50:14","slug":"pereira-keeps-title-with-vicious-tko-of-prochazka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pereira-keeps-title-with-vicious-tko-of-prochazka\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereira keeps title with vicious TKO of Prochazka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pereira (11-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) had a vicious 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round knockout of Jir\u00ed Prochazka (30-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) with a devastating head kick that continued with strikes to defend his light heavyweight belt in the main event of UFC 303 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The rematch between the 2, who fought in November with Alex winning again with a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round TKO, happened a lot earlier as the fighters were called to face each other again on 2 weeks\u2019 notice after Conor McGregor pulled from the main event with Michael Chandler because of toe problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Pereira signed his UFC contract less than 3 years ago<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 8 wins<br \/>&#8211; 5 bonuses<br \/>&#8211; UFC Middleweight champion<br \/>&#8211; UFC Light heavyweight champion<br \/>&#8211; 2 title defenses<br \/>&#8211; Has beaten 5 world champions and finished 4 of them<br \/>&#8211; UFC 300 main event<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QlJdFkgmfr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QlJdFkgmfr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OOC MMA (@oocmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oocmma\/status\/1807287233436627113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pereira and Prochazka were part of the UFC 300 as Jiri defeated \u00a0Aleksandar Rakic and Alex won against Jamahal Hill in defense of his belt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how that I would knockout my opponent and triumph, but I knew I was going to leave T-Mobile Arena in great spirit,&#8221; the Brazilian fighter shared after his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira added that he can chase in the future unprecedented championship in a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> weight class at heavyweight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Pereira sends a heartfelt message to Jiri Prochazka after their fight \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he talks a lot about spirituality. Just so he knows, the same god that blessed us is the one that protects us.<\/p>\n<p>I pray a lot for him and for me to be well after this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC303?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC303<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAIHj4tdWn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LAIHj4tdWn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampRDS\/status\/1807314587793973462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pereira (11-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) had a vicious 2nd-round knockout of Jir\u00ed Prochazka (30-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) with a devastating head kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484759,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18690,22854],"news_category":[16710,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18693,23081,1093],"acf":{"announce":"The Brazilian retains the belt after phenomenal kick.","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\/484758"}],"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=484758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484760,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484758\/revisions\/484760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484758"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484758"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}