Alex Pereira - Cyril Gan: betting tip (cf 1.96) and bets on the fight

Current form

Alex Pereira is making a move this weekend that in MMA is usually called either madness or history. He's moving up to heavyweight to try to become a champion in the third category. Pereira has been living in accelerated editing mode for a long time. Since 2021 — 12 fights, including six title wins. For the UFC, it's not just an activity, it's almost a production schedule. The last chord was in October last year: Magomed Ankalaev was knocked out in the first round. Before that, there was a rare pause for him in the form of a defeat by a decision of the judges from the same opponent.

Before that misfire, Pereira had a streak of five wins in a row and looked like a man who came to the division not for a temporary residence permit, but for the right to dictate the weather. In the light heavyweight division, he quickly became the benchmark of activity among UFC champions — dangerous, cold-blooded and surprisingly disciplined for a fighter whose foundation has always been in kickboxing. 

His record now includes 13 wins (11 by knockout, two by decision) and three defeats. And if you look at your career more broadly, then 38-year—old Pereira is a rare case of a fighter who managed to live two lives: kickboxing and MMA, and both turned out to be titular. In the UFC, he became the middleweight and light heavyweight champion, and in Glory, he managed to be the champion in two categories at once. 

Current form

Cyril Gan also approaches this fight not as a tourist. His last fight also happened in October, and he was remembered, let's say, not for his athletic aesthetics, but for the fact that Tom Aspinall's head momentarily became the center of the entire heavyweight weight. As a result, the fight was declared invalid. After that, Gan won the right to compete in big fights again, having won a split decision over Alexander Volkov. The decision was discussed as if the judges were trying to assemble a Rubik's Cube with gloves. Earlier, he calmly dismantled Sergey Spivak in the second round, showing that his basic version still works.: accurate distance control, cool head and accurate shots.

Gan is 36 years old, and he's one of those heavyweights who look like they've been factory—honed to the same standard-tall, long, athletic. Almost like Pereira in size, but with a noticeably larger mass — about 112 kg in the last fight. And that's where the main thing begins. If the fight goes into a clinch or, God forbid for Pereira, into a fight, the difference in strength and size may become not theoretical, but very practical.  

Standing Gan is not just competitive, he is dangerous. Pereira generally exists in the mode of one precise hit, after which the lights in the hall usually go out faster than the explanations end. The Frenchman has 13 wins (six by knockout, four by decision, three by submission) and two defeats. Gan is a fighter who has gone from Muay Thai to the status of one of the neatest heavyweights in the division.