{"id":1736,"date":"2023-07-17T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2023-07-18T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:20:24","slug":"ufc-291-jan-blachowicz-vs-alex-pereira-for-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/ufc-291-jan-blachowicz-vs-alex-pereira-for-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 291 \u2013 Jan Blachowicz vs. Alex Pereira for the title?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to Jamahal Hill&#8217;s injury, the UFC&#8217;s light heavyweight division is left without a champion. But a rumor was born: Jan Blachowicz and Alex Pereira could face each other for the title at UFC 291.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2023\/07\/edad5-16895413182375-1920.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MMA fans were surprised when the news broke: UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is vacate his title due to a ruptured Achilles tendon. Before him, it was Jiri Prochazka who gave up his title because of a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex \u201cPoatan\u201d Pereira\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKNgDHqAu08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sKNgDHqAu08t a potential title fight between division No. 3 Jan Blachowicz and former middleweight champion Alex Pereira. Although it&#8217;s not fully official yet, many fans spotted a post from the UFC claiming the news, before it was deleted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Blachowicz vs. Pereira for the title?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MMA Junkie&#8217;s Mike Bohn clarified. According to him, this publication was only a mistake: \u201cA UFC official told me that it was a mistake. Currently, Blachowicz vs. Pereira remains a three-round non-title fight on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2023\/07\/fc20d-16895413024574-1920.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Should the two men face off for the light-heavyweight throne, two belts would be on the line at UFC 291. Indeed, during the main event of the evening, Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje, respectively ranked n\u00b02 and 3 in the light weights, will compete for the belt of the &#8220;Baddest Motherf*cker&#8221;. A title formerly held by Jorge Masvidal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Jamahal Hill&#8217;s injury, the UFC&#8217;s light heavyweight division is left without a champion. But a rumor was born: Jan Blachowicz and Alex Pereira could face each other for the title at UFC 291. MMA fans were surprised when the news broke: UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is vacate his title due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}