Aline Pereira, the younger sister of Alex Pereira, won her first fight in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
Pereira took a unanimous decision to win the LFA 160 on Friday (June 16, 2023) by picking off and beating Chelsea Conner from inside the Owensboro Sports Center in Owensboro, Kentucky.
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It was a one-way traffic for 15 minutes as Pereira hit Conner, and I mainly used her to practice on target and work on her takedown defense. The Brazilian was close to finishing Conner in the second round, but time ran out. I eventually got 30x27s across the board.
Pereira lost her professional MMA debut last year at LFA 147 when she was knocked down and knocked down by BKFC fighter and Ultimate Fighter 30 contestant Helen Peralta.
Pereira, 32, is following in her older brother’s footsteps as a former GLORY soccer player turned MMA fighter. (They’ve both lost their MMA debuts, too.)
Alex returns to action at UFC 291 in July, making his light heavyweight debut against Jan Blachowicz for the first time since losing the UFC middleweight title at UFC 287.
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