Javier Mendez Exclusive: The Dominance of Alex Pereira in MMA

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 13: Alex Pereira of Brazil walks to the Octagon in the UFC light heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 300 event at T-Mobile Arena on April 13, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Will COVID kill Khamzat Chimaev’s career? Is Israel Adesanya really Alex Pereira’s kryptonite?

Legendary MMA coach Javier Mendez – who coached UFC hall of famer Khabib Nurmagomedov to greatness, tells all in our latest chat with him. 

Speaking to Fastest Payout Online Casino Mendez said:

  • Alex Pereira is too good for Jiri Prochazka – only Adesanya can stand up to him
  • COVID messed up Khamzat Chimaev, if poor health continues it will tarnish his reputation
  • I would love Islam to have ‘electrifying’ fight with Conor McGregor
  • Jake Paul must be prepared to ‘kill’ Mike Perry if he wants to win on July 20th!
  • Belal Muhammad will beat Leon, He has to make the fight as tight as a phone booth

Alex Pereira is too good for Jiri Prochazka – only Adesanya can stand up to him

Alex keeps improving all the damn time, Jirii he’s more of an orthodox striker, so his chances honestly speaking are not that good in my opinion and that’s only because Alex is improving his levels. There’s only one guy in the Division who in my opinion can stand up with Alex and that is Israel Adesanya. I don’t see any of the other guys being able to stand with Alex without being clipped other than Israel,  I’m sorry, I just don’t see any of these guys being able to handle Alex’s stand up, so if you’re not good at taking him down and you can’t get him to the ground you’re not favoured to win in my opinion. 

I would love Islam to have ‘electrifying’ fight with Conor McGregor

I love Islam vs Conor McGregor, who wouldn’t want to be involved in a fight that would have an electrifying atmosphere? That is a great fight for us and for the fans. One of the greatest feelings I had in my whole entire life was when Khabib and Conor fought because of the real hatred between both sides. 

Conor would not be an easy nice work for Islam because you have to respect the man, he’s got a lot of experience and the only way you make it an easy night is because you train hard – but it will never be an easy night with a guy like Conor, you better train your butt off because he’s a real fighter and if he’s going come in prepared, it’s never going to be easy. 

COVID messed up Khamzat Chimaev, if poor health continues it will tarnish his reputation

It’s hard to know what’s going on with Khamzat, but using Cain Velasquez as an example, here’s an individual who should have been the greatest heavyweight of all time, but due to both unforeseen and foreseen injuries that happened to him, it prevented him from achieving greatness. I should have asked Cain from the start, ‘did you ever get injured when you were wrestling’ and he said ‘never’. So I was like ‘why the heck is he getting injured now?’ And I realised he’d been killing himself in training. If Khamzat cannot get hold of his health issues it would mean it would tarnish his great potential, but let’s see, I hope not, he’s so much fun to watch. Let’s hope he gets the help he needs but if I’m not mistaken, he got the COVID and that’s what messed him up. There’s a lot of people, not just him, who got the COVID and it messed them up pretty good, and they’re not the same. 

Jake Paul must be prepared to ‘kill’ Mike Perry if he wants to win on July 20th!

In the UFC Mike Perry is a no nonsense type of brawler. He’s a warrior and a road warrior. He’s a do or die, blood and guts and glory type of a fighter. Now in BareKnuckle, I see a guy using boxing technique, and when I watched him in Bareknuckle,  I thought ‘wow he’s really sharpened up his boxing’. Now he’s just focusing on boxing, he’s a different guy, he’s not the guy I remember in the UFC. 

If I’m not mistaken, they have sparred together before so they know each other. But that was then and this now, and this is a different Mike Perry, it’s going to be interesting to see, but one thing is for sure, you’re going to have to kill Mike to beat him. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit Mike, he’ll keep coming, so you have to find a way to stop him. You can’t take his heart away, he will keep coming. Jake better be able to receive what he dishes out. But I’m favouring Jake because he’s been boxing for a long time, but if it was bare knuckle, it would be Mike. 

Belal Muhammad will beat Leon, He has to make the fight as tight as a phone booth

I’m backing Belal Muhammad against Leon. I never go against anybody that I know, I’m pro Belal. His best chance I think is on the inside brawling and grappling. But Leon is the complete package now, so it’s a very hard fight – what he’s got do is get on the inside, probably take a lot of punishment and is going to have to dish it out, and he’s gonna have to go to the grind, he can’t give Leon distance in this fight. It’s got to be in close quarters, it’s got to be in a phone booth. In my opinion he’s got to make this a phone booth fight, if he gives distance to Leon, Leon is going to be technically too good and too fast. 


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