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Michel Pereira Outpoints Khaos Williams In Back-And-Forth Fight – UFC Vegas 17 Results

Next up on the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a welterweight bout between Michel Pereira and Khaos Williams. Round 1: The pair touch gloves and we’re underway. Williams lands a leg kick. Pereira lands a one two and follows it up with a leg kick right after Williams attempts a leg kick. Williams catches […]

Next up on the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a welterweight bout between Michel Pereira and Khaos Williams.

Round 1: The pair touch gloves and we’re underway. Williams lands a leg kick. Pereira lands a one two and follows it up with a leg kick right after Williams attempts a leg kick. Williams catches a kick but fails to connect on Pereira when he blitzes forward. Williams blocks a head kick before landing a leg kick soon after. Pereira misses a front body kick as the two clinch up momentarily before returning to striking. Pereira dodges an overhand right however eats a big counterpunch after landing a kick soon after. Williams is now gradually cutting the cage. He lands another right punch just as Pereira attempts a front kick but the latter is able to eat it again. Can he keep doing that? Pereira lands a nice one two and follows it up with a knee. Williams slips a head kick. The round ends with Pereira flying high with a knee that misses.

Round 2: Williams is much more active to start the second. Pereira continues to use movement to evade Williams. Pereira catches the chin of Williams with a big right. Williams blitzes forward now and lands but Pereira clinches with him soon after. Williams has Pereira clinched up against the cage now as he lands knees. Pereira separates and they return to striking. Williams lands a couple of leg kicks. Pereira eats another big right from Williams but seems to have the momentum now despite having the significant strike disadvantage. Pereira blocks an overhand right and continues to evade the jabbing of Williams. Pereira lands a nice front kick to the body. Pereira now has Williams up against the fence with his pressure. However, Williams blitzes forward and lands three solid shots on Pereira who continues to eat those shots. Pereira is clinched up against the cage but reverses and now lands knees to the body of Williams. They separate. Pereira lands a body kick and a one two. He then grabs the back of Williams and attempt a choke but the round comes to an end.

Round 3: Pereira continues to land while Williams struggles to connect with his counters. Pereira lands a nice left hook but has to eat some leg kicks. Pereira starts to dance and loosen up a bit more like we’re used to. He sees his head kick attempt blocked by Williams soon after. He attempts an acrobatic kick from the ground but doesn’t land. Pereira lands a hard front body kick. Williams misses a head kick and absorbs another front body kick. Pereira times a takedown well and gets him down. He’s in side control as he looks to finish the fight. Williams does a great job of getting back to his feet but is clinched up against the fence. They separate and return to striking with one minute left in the fight. Pereira seems to have connected with a head kick but Williams eats it and keep striking. Pereira changes levels and gets Williams down again. He lands strikes from the top as he ends the fight strong.

Official result: Michel Pereira defeats Khaos Williams via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).

Khaos Williams & Michael Pereira Warn Each Other: Don’t Get Too Crazy

Khaos Williams and Michel Pereira will both be looking to steal the show tonight at UFC Vegas 17, and one false move from the opponent will make that all the easier to achieve. Three of the combined six fights between Khaos Williams and Michel Pereira …

Michel Pereira Accuses Anthony Pettis Of Ducking Him, Pettis Responds

Michel Pereira believes there is a strong chance that Anthony Pettis ducked him for tomorrow’s UFC Vegas 17 card. Tomorrow night, Michel Pereira will be taking on Khaos Williams in a fight that is expected to steal the show at UFC Vegas 17. But if Pere…

Michel Pereira Upset Anthony Pettis Turned Him Down, Pettis Clarifies

Michel Pereira was disappointed not to be fighting Anthony Pettis this weekend. Pereira meets Khaos Williams on the featured prelim bout of UFC Vegas 17 on Saturday night. Pettis, meanwhile, is set to take on Alex Morono on the same card. However, Pereira was originally looking to fight the former UFC lightweight champion in Pettis […]

Michel Pereira was disappointed not to be fighting Anthony Pettis this weekend.

Pereira meets Khaos Williams on the featured prelim bout of UFC Vegas 17 on Saturday night. Pettis, meanwhile, is set to take on Alex Morono on the same card.

However, Pereira was originally looking to fight the former UFC lightweight champion in Pettis only to be told he was injured. Instead, both fighters are competing on the same card against different opponents and Pereira believes that’s due to Pettis being afraid to fight him.

“I’m upset with Anthony Pettis because he said he was hurt, he had a back injury, and wouldn’t fight me, and I understood that, he’s hurt and can’t fight, OK, but now he’s fighting on the same card on the 19th,” Pereira told MMA Fighting. “So why isn’t he fighting me? Is he scared? Or is it because I’m not ranked? Why? I almost didn’t get a fight in December because he was stalling for a month to say yes or no. He said no, and now he’s also fighting on the 19th.”

“I think it’s fear, right? It can only be fear. I don’t know. He can’t fight me but will fight someone else? I think it’s fear. … I know many fighters in my division are afraid of me, but time will come for me to fight them all. With my humbleness, focus, discipline and charisma, I’ll reach the top and get my moment.”

Pettis, however, would clarify why that ended up being the case while acknowledging that he was offered a fight with Pereira.

“When they offered me a fight on the 19th, I was looking at the 12th, the last fight card,” Pettis said. “If I’m gonna fight, I’d rather be on the last card fight of year, get an extra week. This was probably three weeks ago. I think they offered him [Pereira] to my agent for the 12th and I’m like, ‘I’d rather have the extra week.’ During that one week of negotiations when [Leon] Edwards got his COVID test results and pulled out because of COVID, that opened up a spot on the 19th card and I hit up Dana [White] myself [and said], ‘Dana, let me get on that card.’

“Dana sends me five names and he’s like, these are the guys available. That guy’s name wasn’t on that list. I know who he is because he’s tried the ‘Showtime Kick,’ and he did it a couple of times, but he’s mistaken that he thinks I’m afraid. I already fought the guy who’s in the main event of the card, why would I be afraid to fight this dude?”

Pettis would clap back further about the notion that he was scared to fight the Brazilian.

“Maybe he should look at who I fought and then he can tell me if I’m afraid to fight a guy like him,” Pettis added. “A guy like him, especially since he comes from a striking background, maybe our paths will cross. But it wasn’t in God’s plan right now for us to fight. I don’t really gotta speak on that; I feel like he has to talk the talk to get a fight with me. These guys want to fight me, these guys want to get in the octagon with me.”

What do you think of Pereira’s statement and the response of Pettis? Would you like to see them fight in the future?

Kamaru Usman Praises Michel Pereira: ‘It Was A Spectacular Performance From Him’

UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman was very impressed with Michel Pereira’s UFC Vegas 9 win over Zelim Imadaev. Pereira was looking to snap his two-fight losing streak. He had a strong showing as he dominated Imadaev on the feet. He dropped …

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Kamaru Usman Gushes Over Michel Pereira: ‘Everything Was Spectacular’

UFC welterweight king Kamaru Usman heaped praise on Michel Pereira after the flamboyant Brazilian striker returned to the win column in fantastic fashion at UFC Vegas 9 this past weekend. Pereira put on a three-round striking clinic against the game but outgunned Zelim Imadaev before eventually picking up a late submission win. Usman, who was […]

UFC welterweight king Kamaru Usman heaped praise on Michel Pereira after the flamboyant Brazilian striker returned to the win column in fantastic fashion at UFC Vegas 9 this past weekend.

Pereira put on a three-round striking clinic against the game but outgunned Zelim Imadaev before eventually picking up a late submission win. Usman, who was on analyst duties for the ESPN+ broadcast had nothing but good things to say about Pereira who he thinks is destined for big things sooner rather than later.

“I loved everything that I saw from him because he proved to everybody, our bosses, and myself included, that he can be a full complete fighter,” Usman said. “I mean, everything was spectacular – his awareness, his cage awareness, the way he was moving, the way he was setting up those traps moving side-to-side and then landing those big shots. It was a spectacular performance from him. I think this is a guy that’s looking to get paired up against someone big in the future, the near future.” (Transcribed by BJPENN.com)

Pereira seems to agree with Usman. The 27-year-old immediately called out Jorge Masvidal after picking up his first win in three fights. Pereira was previously disqualified when he fought Diego Sanchez at UFC Rio Rancho back in March. Before that, he suffered a huge upset defeat at the hands of UFC newcomer Tristan Connelly who shocked the world by picking up a decision win on just a few days’ notice in September 2019.

A matchup opposite Masvidal appears highly unlikely at this moment in time, with the Floridian currently in discussions to rematch Stockton all-rounder, Nate Diaz at UFC 246 in January – with BMF status up for grabs once more.

Do you agree with Kamaru Usman? Did Michel Pereira put on a “spectacular” performance at UFC Vegas 9?