A Bangkok ready guide to Alex Pereira and the nuclear left hook
Alex Pereira is an interesting case in combat sports because he’s managed to seamlessly convert his skills from kickboxing over to mma. While other big time kickboxers struggled with the transition, potentially due to a reliance on 4oz gloves, Pereira’s style of striking flourished. While many criticised him early on in his career for being “just a boxer”, he would develop his game over the course of winning multiple world championships. The hands One of the reasons for the many boxerphobic remarks hurled towards Pereira is his reliance on the left hook. His stance is based around the left hook and his hands are by his shoulder’s ready at any moment to swing his brick-like hands right into the face of the opponent. Pereira will march you down, and then launch himself forwards, putting all of his weight and body rotation into his left hand. Instead of swinging wide (Adesanya) Pereira usually keeps the arc of his punch as tight as possible, utilising what Jack Dempsey describes as a...