Alex Pereira Targets Historic Third UFC Title at Same Age Belfort Attempted It

Alex Pereira is pursuing a third UFC championship, a feat that has only once been seriously threatened in UFC history — by Vitor Belfort at UFC 187 in 2015, when Belfort attempted to win the middleweight title to become the promotion's first three-division champion before being stopped by Chris Weidman. Notably, Pereira is making his attempt at the same age of 38 that Belfort was during that bid, though Pereira enters as the favorite rather than the underdog.