Glover Teixeira happy Alex Pereira moved up to light heavyweight: 'He's 230 pounds right now and he's lean'
Glover Teixeira thinks Alex Pereira moving up to light heavyweight was the right choice. Former middleweight champion Pereira (7-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) will go up a division and face Jan Blachowicz (29-9-1 MMA, 12-6 UFC) in the UFC 291 co-main event on July 29 at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. Teixeira thinks the weight cut down to 185 pounds was too taxing on the body of Pereira, who’s already big at light heavyweight. “I like him going to light heavyweight,” Teixeira said during the UFC Fight Pass Invitational 4 post-match news conference (H/T FanSided MMA ). “When he said he was going to light heavyweight, I was like, ‘I love it’ because I don’t want to see him cutting that much weight. You don’t know how much that guy cuts. He’s 230 pounds right now and he’s lean. “He’s probably like 8 percent body fat. For him to drop to 185 is crazy – crazy, man. I cut weight. I don’t cut that much, but I know how hard it is and as you get older, it gets harder and harder. That eventuall...