Alex Pereira is moving to heavyweight, and the latest training clip makes one thing obvious. The power came with him.
The former two-division UFC champion is set to meet Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight title at UFC White House on June 14, and the new footage shows Pereira ripping pads while Glover Teixeira braces against the wall. The sound is ugly. So is the idea of eating one of those shots clean.
Watch the source clip below:
Pereira is not guessing his way into this division. He already won UFC titles at middleweight and light heavyweight, and before that he built a two-division championship run in Glory kickboxing. This move is risky, sure, but the power part is not new. That has been the problem for everybody else for a long time.
Pereira’s power is real, but Ciryl Gane is a harder read than a pad session
The clip matters because Pereira is already booked against Gane. This is not fantasy matchmaking or gym noise. It is a real fight, on a real date, with an interim title attached. Pereira has also been building toward it for months, including his 247-pound update ahead of the Gane matchup.
Still, Gane is not there to make Pereira look terrifying on camera. He is a natural heavyweight, one of the smoother movers in the division, and the kind of fighter who can punish bad entries and lazy pressure. Pereira can change a fight with one shot. Gane can make him work to find it.
That is the real hook. Pereira is bringing proven power into a division where the margin for error gets thinner and the bodies get bigger. If that power lands the same way at heavyweight, Gane has a serious problem. If it does not, Pereira is going to find out fast that heavyweight asks different questions.
