Israel Adesanya Suggests Next Potential Opponent for Alex Pereira

Israel Adesanya doesn’t seem very interested in Alex Pereira’s light heavyweight title shot offer.

Pereira won the vacant light heavyweight strap with a second-round knockout win over former champ Jiri Prochazka at UFC 295 on Saturday. “Poatan” called out Adesanya in his post-fight interview, urging the Nigerian-born Kiwi to move up to 205 pounds.

“I know that I’m not going to do what he did to me and make me fight three times to fight him at middleweight,” Pereira said in his post-fight interview. “I know it’s a guy we have a lot of history. I want to make this fight happen. Adesanya, come to daddy.”

“The Last Stylebender” responded with a meme of his UFC 287 KO win over Pereira with the Brazilian dressed up as Elsa from the Disney movie “Frozen.”

“Let it gooo,” Adesanya wrote.

Adesanya lost his middleweight strap to Sean Strickland in a shocking upset at UFC 293 in September. Adesanya has since stated that he is going to take a long hiatus from the sport, even mentioning 2027 as a potential timeline for his return.

Pereira has labeled Adesanya’s decision to take time off as “waste of talent.” However, Adesanya doesn’t appear to be lured by the idea of a light heavyweight gold bid. “The Last Stylebender” believes former light heavyweight champ Jamahal Hill is likely to be Pereira’s next opponent.

“The fact that it sits with him, it hurts his spirit, I like it,” Adesanya said on his YouTube channel. “But yeah he did it, in that same arena, getting that belt again. I think Jamahal Hill is probably next for him. But I know for a fact it hurts his spirit, which I like. What did he say, ‘Come to daddy’. It’s like, N—a last time I checked, you were f—-ing slept. But it’s all good. You know what, I wonder if I will ever see him on the golf course.”