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Two all-time great Ultimate Fighting Championship champs share their differing thoughts on how Sunday’s co-main event will go.

Despite sitting in the second-to-last slot on the UFC White House event on Sunday, the duel between Brazilian Alex Pereira and Frenchman Ciryl Gane for the interim UFC heavyweight title has generated as much if not more debate than the main event. between American Justin Gaethje and Spaniard Ilia Topuria. One of the reasons for this is Ilia Topuria’s status as a massive betting favorite over Justin Gaethje while ‘Poatan’ and Gane currently see odds that are dead even.

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In the opinion of former UFC heavyweight champions, Fabricio Werdum and Junior dos Santos, the confrontation could become a closely contested affair between two great strikers, but the Brazilian’s game plan will make the difference. With the experience of having faced Gane in his last UFC fight, at UFC 256 in 2020 when he was stopped with elbow strikes, dos Sa…

Montana is coming to New York.

The Professional Fighters League has announced another bout for their upcoming show in Long Island, New York, on July 31. A women’s flyweight contest between Montana De La Rosa (13-9-1) and Tatiana Postarnakova (5-0) is set for PFL New York at the UBS Arena, per sources close to the situation.

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The fight will be the second of the year for Postarnakova, who made her PFL debut in March and picked up a unanimous decision victory over Elora Dana. The Russian spent the earlier stages of her career fighting in promotions in her home country. This includes a number of appearances with the quasi-MMA promotion Nashe Delo, one that for most of its existence, limited grappling to 30-second engagements and forced exhibition tags to be applied to the matches. In professional outings, she is perfect with five wins opposite zero defeats, …

Josh Hokit’s trash talk is foreign in Alex Pereira’s home country of Brazil.

Pereira (13-3) fights Ciryl Gane (13-2) for the interim heavyweight title in the co-headliner of UFC White House: Freedom 250 on June 14. Hokit (9-0) also takes on Derrick Lewis (29-13) in a heavyweight tilt on the same card.

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During a press conference for the card last month in New Jersey, Hokit went on an unprovoked rant on Pereira. Ilia Topuria, who was sitting next to Pereira, stood up in his defense and threw a glass of water at Hokit. The American heavyweight was escorted out of the presser before things could escalate. Pereira believes Hokit crossed a line when he said, “I will chama on your mama.’ While Pereira has heard a lot of trash talk over the years, he believes people rarely bring up their opponents’ mothers. In Pereira’s home country of Brazil, even between kids, all is fun and games until someone’s mother is mentioned.

Hokit has now been banned from the off…