Episode 682: Alex Pereira, what you doing, baby?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pereira announced last week that he is vacating the UFC light heavyweight title. Why? Well, nobody has said for sure but … we’ve got some ideas. Ya boi Poatan isn’t just going to give up the strap for no reason. He must be chasing something and, honestly, the only thing for Pereira to chase outside of 205 is a heavyweight title fight (probably at the White House) against one of three men: Jon Jones, Cyril Gane or Tom Aspinall. We know Aspinall is still out trying to get his eyes put back in his head, so that leaves Jones and Gane — Jones obviously being the more palatable choice. So, the questions are: Would Poatan have a chance in that fight now that we know Jones’ hip is “covered with arthritis” or whatever? Will the UFC make Jones’ White House dreams come true after all? And, if not, would the UFC really stoop to giving us Pereira vs. Gane? Probably. They probably would. Plus, UFC 326 is this weekend! Yay! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the co-main event podcast, and now your hosts, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.8	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Folks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for nearly the last 14 years. We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
0:40.8	Ben, were coming out of UFC Mexico last weekend, headed into UFC 326 this weekend.
0:48.5	And despite the fact that we don't have too many fights booked for the rest of the year,
0:52.8	or I guess more importantly, too many big, exciting fights booked for the rest of the year or I guess more importantly too many big
0:55.0	exciting fights booked it does now feel like we are into the thick of it in terms of the
1:01.5	UFC on Paramount plus live event schedule so this week we're going to talk about
1:06.8	Max Holloway and Charles Olivaire they're going to rematch for the BMF title, potentially,
1:12.4	perhaps more importantly, maybe the chance to leapfrog Armand Surukian as the number one
1:18.9	contender for Ilya Tupuria. Armon Surukin, by the way, especially at the rate troll boy is
1:24.1	fucking up. He seems to be suffering from, hey, can I fuck this up for myself
1:27.8	disease? Perhaps a terminal case given the events of the weekend. We might mix that into all
1:33.8	this UFC 326 talk. First, though, we got word last week that Alex Pereira is vacating the UFC
1:43.0	light heavyweight championship, but for what exactly?
1:48.0	We know that Yuri Perhaska and Carlos Ulberg will fight for the vacant title at UFC 327 in April,
1:54.9	but we don't know exactly what's going to happen with Pereira, though we have some ideas.
2:04.3	Where are you at on all this?
2:06.6	Yeah, I mean, you got to think a fella doesn't just go, hey, take this UFC title from me.
2:13.4	I don't want it anymore unless he has very good reason to believe this is one step in a process
2:21.9	that is going to end up with you getting something better, or at least an opportunity at
2:25.7	something better.
2:26.6	Now, we know Alex Breyer has done Ben Sane since like UFC 300, he's been like, I'll go to heavyweight.
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