UFC 313: Michael Bisping surprised by Alex Pereira’s sluggish performance in headline loss to Magomed Ankalaev

Michael Bisping questioned Alex Pereira’s will to win at UFC 313.

Pereira ( 12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) lost his light heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev ( 21-1-1 MMA, 12-1-1 UFC) by unanimous decision Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Although he stuffed all 12 of Ankalaev&#8217, s takedown efforts, Pereira was n&#8217, t ready to do any major damage on the feet.

Bisping expected more from &#8220, Poatan. &#8221,

&#8220, From Alex Pereira, it was just kind of a stupid efficiency, &#8221, Bisping said on his YouTube channel. &#8220, I didn&#8217, t view that real desire to want to get. Ankalaev was great, he was powerful, he was great plenty to compete on the foot, and of course, he had the attack risk. And even though he didn&#8217, t get the attack, the risk of the attack was as good as getting the attack because it opened up the hits for him. It stopped Pereira from being extremely intense and didn&#8217, t want to go forth to many. For the most part, he was backed up throughout 25 hours, pushed up against the fence, controlled a little bit.

&#8220, Pereira did a really good job of stopping the knockouts, pummeling, fighting the arms. He had actually robust hips, attack protection on point. But you don&#8217, t get a battle by defending knockouts. Alex Pereira, the people have come to expect a knock. In the second round, it was like he&#8217, s got to deliver these, and he just didn&#8217, t. And Ankalaev didn&#8217, t give him an opportunity and didn&#8217, t let him. Well, the crowd were booing, he pushed him up against the fence, but that &#8217, s the sport. It&#8217, s mixed martial arts. &#8221,

Pereira thought he may have gotten his hands raised, but Bisping had it four sessions to one in favour of Ankalaev. He thinks Ankalaev hit Pereira at his own game.

&#8220, Pereira didn&#8217, t seem very happy. He felt that he had a case to get this one, &#8221, Bisping said. &#8220, He said you should n&#8217, t win a battle by pushing someone against the fence. But in mixed martial arƫs, we see that hαppen all tⱨe time, αnd Ankalaev landed the bįgger pictures, he was more violent, hȩ was going ƒorward αnd there was just more prσductivity.

&#8220, It was a stupid functionality. It was n&#8217, t stupid in terms of Pereira was n&#8217, t trying, it was n&#8217, t stupid that he was out of breath and weary and didn&#8217, t prepare – even though he did get a little tired as the fight progressed. The wrestling from Ankalaev certainly added to that, but what I mean by stupid is just the basic amount of output that we saw, it really was n&#8217, t there. &#8221,

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