Alex Pereira is an unreasonably powerful human being.
This previous Saturday, Pereira efficiently defended his mild heavyweight title with a first-round knockout of Jamahal Hill in the primary occasion of UFC 300. After the combat, UFC CEO Dana White revealed Pereira broke a toe a couple of weeks earlier than the occasion however competed anyway, and on Tuesday, Pereira confirmed precisely what occurred.
Posting to his Instagram, Pereira put up a video of the coaching session two weeks earlier than UFC 300 the place he broke his proper pinky toe, and the strategies his group tried to repair it instantly after.
“I broke my toe. … Push it. Push. … See if it went again. … Rotate it a bit. … Do it like this. Out. Out. Ahead.”
Within the video you possibly can see Pereira acknowledge the break after throwing a kick. Then his group makes an attempt to push the toe again into place to no avail. Whereas they proceed to work on his foot, Pereira sits there and laments the accident.
“Sucks, man. Final spherical,” Pereira mentioned. “I used to be doing good.”
In the end the damaged digit didn’t have an effect on Pereira an excessive amount of as he was nonetheless capable of knockout Hill in simply over three minutes.
