Media Alex Pereira trains with former foe Yousri Belgaroui to prepare for Israel Adesanya

Who is going to win the quadrilogy?

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BoxerMaurits said:
Yousri Belgaroui is atleast 6’5”.
A multiple-time GLORY Kickboxing title-challenger turned MMA-fighter who fought Israel Adesanya (2 times) aswell as Alex Pereira (3 times).
He definitely knows a thing or two about both guys, and despite Yousri’s former intense rivalry with Pereira, he’s now helping his former foe prepare to defend his UFC world championship (just like he helped him prepare to win the title last November).

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Yousri has a tall stature and long rangy kickboxing game, just like Adesanya.
In the training video below you see Yousri trying to imitate Israel’s evasive movement and feint attacks on Pereira. The past few weeks there’ve been a lot more sparring sessions on their Instagram-stories and I was truly impressed by the way Yousri was able to imitate Izzy




Like I said, Alex Pereira and Yousri Belgaroui shared the ring 3 times before in a heated rivalry, and now they’re close training parters and great friends, which is very nice to see.
Friendship aside, here’s the compilation video of their fights in GLORY, the vid shows highlights of all 3 fights (including the famous knockout):


(full fights are on GLORY’s YT aswell)


Here’s Israel Adesanya vs Yousri Belgaroui 2:




Yousri himself is doing a good job in MMA too.
His last two finishes:





Yousri went 5-2 since transitioning to MMA in 2021.
His two decision-losses came against hometown guys in UAE Warriors. His first loss over a year ago being a Izzy - Romero kinda fight against a wrestler-boxer, where Yousri was like Izzy landing from the outside but not doing much more and the wrestler-boxer guy being Romero doing absolutely nothing but walking forward swinging/missing haymakers.
Not a great performance at all (maybe because of inexperience), but I definitely thought Yousri won due to landing more, opposed to losing a split decision. Still, it was a hard fight to score.
His second loss a few months later was an absolute robbery against a local guy from Dubai, UAE though.
So yeah, basically Belgaroui could’ve been 7-0 instead of 5-2, but thankfully this sport isn’t like modern boxing where you get defined by a single loss:)


Anyway, keep an eye open during the Embedded Series this week. I’m sure Yousri Belgaroui will be shown on there, aswell as in Pereira’s corner on saturday. Hopefully their training pays off

War Poatan:cool:
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1st video ...I checked and it was from April 2017 (Glory 40 in Copenhagen), so 6 years ago.
Pereira was quite a bit skinnier back then! He is much more solid and muscular these days, that's quite obvious.
 
You really started this thread because of a couple hashtags?
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I met Yousri at Levels Fight League (LFL) in Amsterdam, where he commentated the event together with my good old friend Robin Black:)

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Yousri told me he’ll probably be fighting for LFA next, and if he does well, he has a good chance of entering the UFC. Yousri said that Pereira’s manager Jorge Guimarães fixed this for him. The training with Glover Teixeira and Alex Pereira definitely helped him up his game. Yousri also said he’s very excited to help Pereira prepare for Adesanya and train with all the great fighters at Teixeira MMA.
In the interview below you see me in a conversation with Yousri (in the background), where we’re talking about all this (timestamped):



I also spoke to the interviewer, Dennis Kornman, who’s the Dutch guru when it comes to combat sports.
He’s the executive producer of UFC on Eurosport NL and host of Dutch MMA podcasts “Vechtersbazen” and “De Gouden Kooi” (together with former UFC- and PRIDE-fighter Gilbert Yvel and Big Marcel Dorff).
He already knew me (but just by name), due to interaction via the podcast

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And here Dennis talks to Gilbert Yvel and Big Marcel Dorff about meeting me at LFL 6 on his podcast the day after, lol (timestamped):



Some context and translation:

I send in a question for the podcast and asked them (Dennis, Gilbert and Marcel) something about the LFL event in the Q/A part of the podcast, and when my question popped up Dennis Kornman went like:

“Yeah shoutout to Maurits! Was really nice to meet you at LFL!” He then explained that I send in questions weekly and participate in their betting game and that he ran into me at LFL. He said he liked meeting me in person, while before he only knew me digitally. Following with “I really liked that!”.
Gilbert Yvel then asked: "What did he look like?"
When Dennis replied with: “Big, he’s a big guy, man. I really had to like (looks up in the air), yeah a big dude.”

And then he continues reading my question
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Looking succulent in those photos brah
 
Chuck's mohawk is visibly thinning at the crown. He dodged the receding hairline bullet with his hairstyle but male pattern baldness eventually finds a way.
 
I know it's only Instagram. And I'm sure Izzy trains hard and is dedicated as fuck. But Alex looks seriously focused and ready. Izzy out there with Russell Peters, Kevin Hart and Dave Chappell. I know come fight night he'll be ready for sure.

But I think for this one he needs to be more than ready
 
Ace70 V2 said:
I think Israel can definitely pull it off. There was never a fight where he wasn't competitive. Alex is probably the guy that beats him 9 out of 10 times. But if the 1 win is arguably going to be their last fight together, now would he the time for him to pull it out. Either way, both of these dudes deserve our respect.
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He did certainly show he can hurt Alex but I think he will probably need to do that in order to win whilst knowing Alex can hurt him.

I kind of thing the way Izzy has evolved in MMA is actually better suited to beating inferior strikers who carry on a takedown threat, striking isnt just about beating other strikers its also about being able to land your offence on guys you outgun but threaten with grappling, Machida for example was actually better at that than Shogun but wasnt as good in a kickboxing showdown.

I think you can see Alex knows he can't counter grappling only via movement and counter threat as Izzy tends to, hence putting more focus on actually building up his clinch wrestling game.
 
Whatever happens in this Main Event I hope it does not go to decision as there have been some terrible decisions lately in UFc events and the last thing we want is some controversial "WTF?!?!!?" decision in this fight.

Hoping for a TKO/KO or sub., with no weird ref decisions or judges decisions. No controversy Required.
Something definitive so we can all move on from the Adesanya vs Pereira situation.
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I met Yousri at Levels Fight League (LFL) in Amsterdam, where he commentated the event together with my good old friend Robin Black:)

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Yousri told me he’ll probably be fighting for LFA next, and if he does well, he has a good chance of entering the UFC. Yousri said that Pereira’s manager Jorge Guimarães fixed this for him. The training with Glover Teixeira and Alex Pereira definitely helped him up his game. Yousri also said he’s very excited to help Pereira prepare for Adesanya and train with all the great fighters at Teixeira MMA.
In the interview below you see me in a conversation with Yousri (in the background), where we’re talking about all this (timestamped):



I also spoke to the interviewer, Dennis Kornman, who’s the Dutch guru when it comes to combat sports.
He’s the executive producer of UFC on Eurosport NL and host of Dutch MMA podcasts “Vechtersbazen” and “De Gouden Kooi” (together with former UFC- and PRIDE-fighter Gilbert Yvel and Big Marcel Dorff).
He already knew me (but just by name), due to interaction via the podcast

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And here Dennis talks to Gilbert Yvel and Big Marcel Dorff about meeting me at LFL 6 on his podcast the day after, lol (timestamped):



Some context and translation:

I send in a question for the podcast and asked them (Dennis, Gilbert and Marcel) something about the LFL event in the Q/A part of the podcast, and when my question popped up Dennis Kornman went like:

“Yeah shoutout to Maurits! Was really nice to meet you at LFL!” He then explained that I send in questions weekly and participate in their betting game and that he ran into me at LFL. He said he liked meeting me in person, while before he only knew me digitally. Following with “I really liked that!”.
Gilbert Yvel then asked: "What did he look like?"
When Dennis replied with: “Big, he’s a big guy, man. I really had to like (looks up in the air), yeah a big dude.”

And then he continues reading my question
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That is the most generically Moroccan-looking dude I have ever seen in my life.
 
Watching Chuck in that clip is like seeing the sequel to Sling Blade
 
stacrafty said:
Alex seems like a competitive dude, and its seems like your'e a fan of kickboxing so you know as well as I how rare a standing 8 is in modern kickboxing. I'm sure Alex wants a cleaner win than being all but TKO'd on the feet and given a bizzare charity 8 count to recover.

Also whats with Alex sucking up to that Hans Molemkamp goofball and pushing crytpo scams in his IG posts?

Does Hans own his soul? its the first thing he tags in his posts
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Do you feel the standing 8 was justified? Would a more neutral ref let Izzy finish?
 
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