Overview

• Full footage from the UFC Performance Institute shows Magomed Ankalaev and Alex Pereira trading barbs through a phone translation app, with Pereira calling Ankalaev a coward and saying, “I will hit you, I will slap your face.”
• Ankalaev confronted Pereira over claims he hid at the facility, then posted that he would “turn off his electricity next week” and urged that the matter be settled in the octagon.
• The champion told media he no longer respects Pereira, accusing him of lying about the PI incident and saying he will defend himself if provoked before fight night.
• Online reaction zeroed in on the translation-powered standoff and on Ankalaev’s claim that he writes his own tweets using Google Translator and ChatGPT, as many fans speculated that manager Ali Abdelaziz was behind the posts.
• Ankalaev vs. Pereira headlines UFC 320 on Oct. 4 at T-Mobile Arena, and the champion said he finds the Reyes–Ulberg bout a more interesting potential contender matchup than Prochazka–Rountree.