Alex Pereira continued to shine because the MVP of the promotion after claiming victory in his fourth foremost occasion title struggle in 11 months.
Pereira (12-2 MMA, 9-1 UFC) defended his gentle heavyweight title for the third time by defeating Khalil Rountree (13-6 MMA, 9-6 UFC).
The challenger put up a stiff struggle early, however finally, the champ retained by stopping Rountree with a hellacious flurry at 4:32 of Spherical 4.
Each landed well-placed countershots early within the struggle. Pereira stored Rountree guessing with kicks, whereas the champ solely handled punches coming in his route in a aggressive first spherical.
Pereira missed with a giant head kick try in Spherical 2, leaving a gap for Rountree to crack him with a giant punch. A mix and a heavy head kick quickly adopted, securing a transparent second spherical for Rountree.
Early in Spherical 3, Rountree continued to land exhausting counterpunches, backing Pereira into the fence. Halfway by way of, Pereira went again to including exhausting leg kicks to his offense to decelerate Rountree’s responses, which proved to be a pivotal level within the struggle.
Rountree was busted open from strikes, and a leaping knee from Pereira prompted a heavy forward-pressure assault to seal the third spherical.
Bruised and bloodied in Spherical 4, Pereira continued to select aside his opponent with sharp single strikes whereas making an attempt to evade the return punches. Pereira turned up the strain as Rountree started to again away, drawing out a wild firefight.
Rountree was pressured to cowl up as he retreated to the fence along with his proper eye swollen shut, however Pereira was cautious of the counters and didn’t go away himself open. “Poatan” acquired a maintain of Thai clinch to dig in additional strikes, and the next flurry of heavy punches closed the present.
