UFC champ Alex Pereira, Anthony Smith squash beef with some nice words for each other

It’s been a minute, but you might recall that UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira and Anthony Smith were beefing with each other last year. Heading into UFC 307 fight week, consider it squashed.

To kick off UFC 307 fight week, Smith, who’s in Salt Lake City to work Saturday’s pay-per-view event as a desk analyst, sat down to interview Pereira, which could’ve been awkward. After all, Smith said some things about Pereira’s light heavyweight debut against Jan Blachowicz that rubbed “Poatan” the wrong way, eventually leading to a $50,000 challenge for a jiu-jitsu match.

But when Pereira and Smith came together for an ESPN interview that posted Monday, it was all love and respect between the two of them.

Alex Pereira and Anthony Smith squash the beef

@espnmma #UFC #MMA #UFC307 pic.twitter.com/tIYQ2sfejd

— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) September 30, 2024

You see how happy this interaction made Glover Teixeira? That’s what I’m really here for.

Pereira will go for his third consecutive defense of the 205-pound championship when he meets Khalil Rountree in the main event of UFC 307 on Saturday at Delta Center.

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