For the past year, I've been asserting that Pereira is a product of circumstances. When he faces a strong wrestler, even not an excellent fighter, just someone like Nikita Krylov, he'll be exposed big time. 40 years old jan post injury is the best grappler he faced and fight was close. He just needs to face a physically strong guy with relatively good grappling, and he'll be toastedWhy are some Pereira fans so extremely thin-skinned? So often when someone starts a thread about him it's to whine about something that's not worth whining about. It's just true that he hasn't shown us any ability that would lead us to think that he could deal with a great wrestler.
Not that it's his fault that LHW has lost it's good wrestlers. The LHW division certainly isn't what it was but it's not up to him to create his opposition. He's now in the proper weight class for his size so he can just go for it.
It's wonderfully ironic with these people complaining that Weidman is saying something about Pereira because they think Pereira is a better fighter though, as it is an argument that completely invalidates all of their own opinions about anything regarding MMA.
For the past year, I've been asserting that Pereira is a product of circumstances. When he faces a strong wrestler, even not an excellent fighter, just someone like Nikita Krylov, he'll be exposed big time. 40 years old jan post injury is the best grappler he faced and fight was close. He just needs to face a physically strong guy with relatively good grappling, and he'll be toasted