Heading into UFC 287, Alex Pereira was considered Israel Adesanya’s boogeyman. Afterward, they were hugging and talking about visiting each other just for fun.
That’s how the rivalry played out Saturday night at Kaseya Center where Adesanya avenged his three previous defeats to Pereira with an emphatic second-round knockout to reclaim the UFC middleweight championship that Pereira took from him last November.
