Alex Pereira To Defend His Light Heavyweight Title Against Khalil Rountree Jr. At UFC 307

UFC Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will be defending his title for the third time in 2024, and this time, its 8th-ranked contender Khalil Rountree Jr. who got the shot to the title. In recent years, the Brazilian MMA fighter Alex Pereira has become a massive name in combat sports. In his short time in the UFC, he has dominated two divisions and dethroned two champions of two different weight classes. First, he became middleweight champion after defeating Israel Adesanya, ultimately losing the title in the rematch. Then, when he moved to light heavyweight class, he walked through several contenders and defeated champions Jiri Prochazka and Jamahal Hill to get another gold.

At UFC 303, he showed his supreme striking by knocking Jiri Prochazka out cold via a head kick. Khalil Rountree Jr. got the shot to the title after his five consecutive wins, among which 4 were via knockout. Khalil Rountree Jr. was scheduled to fight Jamahal Hill at UFC 303, but the fighter revealed that he wouldn’t be able to fight as he consumed a banned substance in his supplements. While Rountree Jr. is still suspended from combat sports, his next hearing will be in last August, and UFC is pretty confident that he will clear that to be available in October for the fight.

Apart from Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree Jr. In the co-main event, Women’s Bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington, who is on a 6 fight-winning streak, will defend her title against former champion Julianna Pena. Since July 2022, Pena has remained out of action after losing the title to Amanda Nunes via unanimous decision. Stephen Thompson is also in the card alongside Kevin Holland. UFC 307 is going to happen at Delta Center in Utah on October 5th, 2024.