UFC sets rematch date between Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya
This will be the first title defense for the new champion.
UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira of Brazil and New Zealander Israel Adesanya will rematch on April 8, 2023.
The strongest league in the world announced this fight as the main event of the UFC 287 tournament.
Although until recently there were doubts that this revenge could be organized in the first half of this year.
However, Pereira, who knocked out Adesanya in the fifth round at UFC 282 in New York in November 2022, is waiting for the first defense of the belt.