Overview
- They shared matching-sweater photos to Instagram Stories, with Cortez posting a kissing image that confirmed the relationship shortly after midnight on Jan. 1.
- Pereira is the reigning UFC light heavyweight champion, and Cortez competes in the UFC flyweight division.
- The reveal was rapidly amplified by social accounts such as Championship Rounds and quickly picked up by mainstream and MMA outlets.
- Renato Moicano reacted with a joking video about training harder before his March 7 UFC 326 bout against Brian Ortega, who later posted that he is happy and focused on family and career.
- Pereira has not fought since reclaiming the title with an 80-second KO of Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 320, and he recently posted that a proposed White House fight is "a no go."