Alex Pereira is your new UFC light heavyweight champion. The Brazilian claimed his second UFC title with a second-round TKO win over Jiří Procházka at UFC 295.
With his Madison Square Garden moment in hand, the question inevitably turns to what’s next. The light heavyweight division has been in a near-constant state of fluctuation since Jon Jones dropped the belt in 2020.
Since that moment there have been two champions vacate the belt due to injury, a vacant title fight that ended in a draw and just one successful title defense. Even then, it was when Jan Blachowicz beat Israel Adesanya, who was coming up from middleweight.
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