“I had done everything I could and wanted to do in kickboxing. It was toward the end, it was getting difficult to get the fights I wanted and I just felt MMA made sense as the next challenge.”

Brazilian mixed martial artist and former kickboxer

Alex Sandro Silva Pereira is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. He competes in the UFC’s heavyweight division and has also held major titles at light heavyweight and middleweight. Pereira is known for his success across weight classes in mixed martial arts after first building his name in kickboxing. He has been a UFC Middleweight Champion and a two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, and he is currently ranked among the top fighters in the organization’s divisional and pound-for-pound standings.