MMA Junkie's 2022 Male Fighter of the Year: Alex Pereira

Dec 20 2022 by MMAjunkie

 

All you have to do is go back to Dec. 19, 2019, when the very first MMA Junkie headline on Alex Pereira published, to understand the amount of pressure he would be under once his mixed martial arts career got underway.

“The guy who knocked out Israel Adesanya says he can do it again – but in UFC,” it read.

That’s a hell of a way to introduce yourself to MMA fans.

At the time, Adesanya was still undefeated at 18-0 and two months prior, he capped off a meteoric rise to UFC stardom by

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