Can Alex Pereira keep rolling? Does Khalil Rountree have a chance? | UFC 307 Storylines - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

Alex Pereira puts his UFC Light-Heavyweight Championship on the line against Khalil Roundtree at UFC 307. Peter Klein looks at the storylines heading into that main event fight and the co-main event bout between Juliana Pena and Raquel Pennington.   Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands  Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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00:00Into the UFC conversation we go now, and it is UFC 307 going down this weekend, as it

00:17is once again an opportunity to see one of the pound-for-pound greats of his time step

00:22into the octagon, as Alex Pereira, this time not in an effort to save a card or on short

00:28notice, gets a real actual training camp against a real actual opponent, kind of, as he faces

00:34Khalil Rowntree in the main event for the UFC's Light Heavyweight Championship.

00:38In the co-main event, it is Giuliano Pena taking on Raquel Pennington as they fight

00:43for gold as well.

00:44So let's get into the early storylines.

00:46We begin with Alex Pereira, who honestly, like, I hope he is taking Khalil Rowntree

00:52much more seriously than I am, because my first note is Pereira needs to stay focused.

00:57This is not the bright lights of UFC 300.

00:59This is not the bright lights of a Madison Square Garden show that he has come in last

01:06minute and saved.

01:07This isn't an international fight week that he is coming in and saving.

01:11This is just a regular-ass pay-per-view.

01:14It is a one-after-the-spear, it is all of these things, and it's against an opponent

01:19that is probably, like, one of the worst he has faced in the UFC, to be perfectly frank.

01:24So he needs to keep that focus, and not think about any of those things that I just said,

01:31and just walk into that cage on Saturday and take care of business.

01:34He needs to be able to keep that momentum going.

01:36And this is like a few of the boxing ones that we have done of this, where we are already

01:40looking at what is next.

01:41And I am continuing to bang that drum, hoping that what is next is an opportunity in the

01:47heavyweight division.

01:48This is a guy who, yes, there are probably a couple other fights who, uh, that he needs

01:53to take care of.

01:54At 205 pounds.

01:55Rakic, Madrimov, a couple of those sorts of things.

01:58But, this is someone who wants to go out and make history.

02:03And it's not like you have a heavyweight division that is beating down with contenders

02:06right now.

02:07You have two very old men, who haven't fought in a very long time, who will be fighting

02:11for your heavyweight champ- excuse me, championship, next month.

02:15After that, you have a young stud, who is knocking out every other contender on their

02:19way toward the heavyweight championship.

02:23So, I'm not saying Pereira needs to get a heavyweight title opportunity next, although,

02:27fun, um, I am saying that his next fight, I think, should be at 265 pounds.

02:31That is my personal belief.

02:33For Roundtree, he seems like a weird challenger.

02:36He had his last fight cancelled, because he tested positive for a banned substance.

02:42So the fight at UFC 303 gets pulled, and as punishment, he gets a championship opportunity.

02:48This is so weird.

02:50I was going to say, coming into this, that he feels like a mandatory challenger in boxing.

02:56But he doesn't even feel like that.

02:58Like, this is beyond the scope of what I think a mandatory challenger in boxing would get.

03:04Honestly, this is kicking it old school a little bit.

03:07This is like the old Pride Grand Prix's, where it's like, alright, well, it's the middleweight

03:10grand prix, we're not going to have the middleweight champion in.

03:13So he gets to face whoever, the 8th or 16th seat, or whatever they would do.

03:18So he goes in there against some absolutely poor sucker to just get obliterated.

03:23That is honestly what this feels like right now.

03:26And so this is, I think you can tell I'm not taking Roundtree overly seriously as a championship

03:32opposition.

03:33But Roundtree has an opportunity to pull off what would be the wildest upset in the history

03:39of the sport.

03:42I think this would definitely be bigger than home, Rousey.

03:45And it would be, like, up there with Sarah against GSP.

03:49When you consider that Pereira could be a triple champ by the time this year, by the

03:55time next year is done.

03:57Someone who is a champion in three different weight classes.

03:59Probably not at the same time.

04:00That would be tough.

04:01But someone who has at least made that kind of history.

04:04He is right now, pound for pound, on my pound for pound rankings, number two.

04:09And I think at worst you could put him third.

04:11He's on an absolute tear.

04:14His last win was against Anthony Smith, who we are just starting to, like, is he still

04:18good?

04:19Is he not?

04:20Not exactly a number one contender type of a fight.

04:23So Roundtree this weekend has a chance to shock the world in what I think would be the

04:26biggest upset in the history of the sport.

04:29Moving into the co-main event, also for a championship, as Giuliana Peña looks to get

04:32back the belt that she won for a second against Amanda Nunes.

04:35For Peña, it is put up or shut up.

04:37She has been trying to go the Chael Sonnen, Colby Covington, whatever route of being the

04:42trash talker and the, I'm going to play the heel.

04:45And she kind of sucks at it.

04:48And no one cares.

04:50And oh, Amanda Nunes is retiring because she's scared of me.

04:53No one believes that.

04:54No one's believing you.

04:56Not at all.

04:57And so yeah, you get a huge upset win over Amanda Nunes, congratulations.

04:59That is one of the biggest upsets in the history of the sport.

05:02Nunes came out after and kind of proved it was a fluke by whooping that ass for five

05:06rounds.

05:07Peña's three and two in her last five.

05:09If she wins this, then I'm not saying it validates everything and oh, well, Amanda

05:14Nunes was actually scared of her because I don't believe that for a second.

05:17And I don't believe that this validates Peña in being as good as she thinks she is.

05:22But it is a bit of validation, right?

05:23It's a two-time champion now, if she's able to pull that off.

05:26If she loses, I don't think she will be taken seriously ever again as a title challenger

05:31to be perfectly frank.

05:32For Raquel Pennington, it's kind of playing with house money.

05:35I don't think anyone thought she would have had this resurgence after Nunes lays down

05:41one of the most one-sided ass kickings in the history of the sport on Pennington back

05:46in 2018.

05:48She follows that up by losing weight and losing, er, missing weight, sorry, and losing to Jermaine

05:53Duran to me.

05:54To be able to bounce back and work her way into this opportunity to be a champion again

05:59is an unbelievable bounce back for Raquel Pennington and an unbelievable kind of final

06:05act to this career.

06:07So we will see what comes of this fight this weekend.

06:09I'm very intrigued by this one.

06:12Overall, this isn't the biggest card out there.

06:14This isn't UFC, er, Noche UFC.

06:17This isn't one of those.

06:18But you got a couple of intrigues, um, intriguing fights anyway, at the top of the card.

06:21Coming up tomorrow, we'll look at the non-main event fighters that you should pay attention

06:25to on this particular show.

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