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A 13-4 record, a #2 light heavyweight ranking, and a build made for a striker — here's Alex Pereira on paper.
Alex Pereira, known as “Poatan,” is a Brazilian fighter carrying a 13-4-0 record. He is listed at heavyweight, yet his rankings tell you where the spotlight really points: #2 at light heavyweight and #8 pound-for-pound. That P4P placement is the tell — it means he is rated among the very best on the whole roster, not just inside one division. When a name sits that high across weight classes, fans start arguing about him for a reason.
Thirteen wins against four losses is a lean, top-heavy line for someone sitting at #2 in his division. This is not a padded number — a fighter climbs to the number-two slot at light heavyweight by beating ranked names, and the pound-for-pound entry backs that up. On paper, Pereira is a finisher’s profile: a short list of fights, a high perch, and a reputation that travels beyond his weight class.
Everything about the physical sheet reads striker. Pereira stands 6’4" with a 79-inch reach from an orthodox stance — long, rangy, and built to fight from distance. At 39, he is a veteran with the frame to keep opponents at the end of his punches and control the geometry of a bout. A tall orthodox fighter with reach like this does not need to chase; he can make the other man come to him and pay for it. That is the shape of his game before a single round is even scored.
Here is where the argument gets loud. Pereira’s last five, most recent first:
Read it from the bottom up and you see a run: wins over Jiří Procházka and Khalil Rountree Jr., then the two-part story with Magomed Ankalaev — a loss avenged by a win in the rematch. That kind of run-it-back sequence is exactly the stuff fans replay endlessly. Split a pair with a rival and the “who’s really better” question never fully closes. The most recent entry, a loss to Ciryl Gane, is the fresh one on the sheet — the last word so far, and the thing his next opponent will be studying.
His next bout is not yet on the board — no announced matchup to lock in. That is its own kind of suspense: a #2 light heavyweight and top-ten pound-for-pound name with an open dance card. When his next fight lands, it will be one worth calling early.
So make your read now. Do you back the range, the reach, and the run over Procházka and Rountree — or does the Gane result mean the window is tightening? Follow Poatan, and when his next fight is announced, put him in your bracket and guess the winner before anyone else does.