Alex Pereira Supporting Sean Strickland

A highly anticipated Middleweight matchup between Alex Pereira and Sean Strickland happened at UFC 276. Many were excited for this bout due to Strickland's critiques of Pereira's kickboxing style and his belief that he could defeat Alex by only striking. Pereira would knockout Strickland in the first round and would later become Middleweight champion. But despite the trash talk from Strickland, there seemed to be a level of respect between the two fighters. A year later Strickland would travel to Pereira's gym to train and learn from Alex what he did wrong in their matchup. After training together the two have showed support for each other's careers publicly. #alexpereira #seanstrickland #shorts #ufc

[craemcream]

I remember when Pereira said that part about how Strickland can beat Adesanya and was laughed at by the community. Now here we are 1 week away from Strickland's first bout as a champ lol

[palerewin]

Its cool that alex didn't try to take credit from Strickland

[chrisb]

Alex really embodies everything admirable about sport.

[ericyoutube]

Sean was extremely humble and had humility to learn from a guy that knocked him out.

[vincentchastel]

This is the real fight game. No hype, no trash talk. Just brothers in arms honing their craft with respect.

[alexrod]

When another monster is willing to let you know what you need to work on its a total game Changer. Respect amongst the elite.

[lesterfaapaiaga]

If you train with someone who KO you, you must be humble enough to learn and get better like Sean has. Good on him

[Sparton]

‘Where am I where am I?’ Strickland had only just woken up from the knockout pereira just dragged his body to the airport straight into camp

[TechOutAdam]

Alex is one of the best fighters the sport ever had. He brought out a whole new Sean we haven’t seen before. The epitome of it’s all about how you comeback from a loss.

[genesworld]

Alex showed his true championship qualities

[SergioMendoza]

This is why Sean’s champ. He got one tapped by Alex and said “well that sucked!” And immediately started training with him to find the holes in his game. Fast forward a couple months later and even Alex saw the potential in Sean and his ability to beat Izzy. Fast forward to today and we are approximately 24 hours away from Sean’s first title defense.

[devinnorsworthy]

People don't seem to understand that people can learn. Sean tightened up his form, kept his hands closer to his guard, left himself open much less (almost never), and he learned to hit harder. ❤ bless that man 100%

[goat]

Sean shows respect to anyone who could whoop him very bad ❤

[jonathanjohnson]

Iron sharpens iron. Alex telling him "this is a hole that I see" is probably the best show of friendship a fighter can tell another fighter. Alex made Sean better and for that he's a true friend. CHAMA❤

[doublec]

This is the mma bromance that we didn’t know we needed🤣. And didn’t see coming at all.

[jiasdfadfdeygshjklsIlgs]

'Where am I bro, where am I? Connecticut?' - that's what Strickland thought after that KO in the cage 😁

[rosiedsilva]

They are friends connected by soul...
Alex doesn't speak English but when they are together, their energy and their vibe is awesome 👏.
I'm Brazilian by soul and blood and here in Ireland, when I got here before I get speak English I had friends that we use to speak only by signings and few English words...I'm talking about 13 years ago...I got know this vibe...friends by soul and connections as brothers from anothers mothers! Connection forever.

[JacksonStorm-utkr]

Alex, Strickland, and dricus are the realest MFs in this sport.

[vibes]

Alex pereira is so good for the sport not just as a fighter 🔥

[billybobb]

I met Sean Strickland at home Depot. Such a solid dude. He is tall and stacked. Alex being bigger is wild.