Curtis Blaydes warns Alex Pereira against heavyweight move: ‘I would f*ck up Alex Pereira’

Curtis Blaydes doesn’t suppose Alex Pereira ought to transfer as much as heavyweight.

At UFC 303, Pereira efficiently defended his gentle heavyweight title with a second spherical knockout of Jiri Prochazka. After the win, discuss shortly turned of Pereira probably transferring as much as heavyweight to turn out to be the primary three division champion in UFC historical past. However Curtis Blaydes believes he ought to rethink.

“Dangerous thought,” Blaydes advised reporters at UFC 304 media day. “Him, I’ll offer you my premeditated plan: I’m going to shoot. Instantly. Why would I give him any likelihood to knock me out on the ft after I know I can take him down at will? I’m positive he has to know that. I feel he’s on the lookout for a selected heavyweight, not any heavyweight.

“He has matchups in opposition to — I can see him beating guys like Tai. We watched him sparring Tai Tuivasa. Perhaps another guys within the backside of the top-15. However you give him a top-five man with some actual weight, he’s not successful.”

Pereira just lately launched coaching footage with Tai Tuivasa which solely stoked the flames for a doable heavyweight transfer. However Pereira is a former middleweight and as Blaydes notes, he’s fought a number of the hardest hitting heavyweights of all time, that means he’s supremely assured “Poatan” wouldn’t actually have a puncher’s likelihood in opposition to him.

“I’m going to eat that knee,” Blaydes mentioned when requested about Pereira’s flying knees. “I ate one from Alistair [Overeem]. You suppose he throws more durable knees than Alistair? I do know he’s obtained the aura occurring proper now, however I ate a knee from 265 pound Alistair. I’m good with consuming knees.

“Sure [I would welcome a fight]. Sure. I do know that’s what everybody desires. I’d f*ck up Alex Pereira. It’s not as a result of he’s not good. I’m heavier than he’s. A heavyweight, gravity, weight issues. It’s not a ability foundation. It’s simply how it’s.”

For now, such a matchup is only hypothetical and Blaydes has his personal combat to fret about as “Razor” takes on interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall within the co-main occasion of UFC 304 this Saturday in Manchester, England.