Jean Silva clarifies meaning of controversial post on Alex Pereira

Jean Silva had to issue a quick clarification after his post about Alex Pereira was misinterpreted by fans. 

Sean Strickland challenged Khamzat Chimaev for the middleweight title at UFC 328 on Saturday at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Strickland earned a hard-fought unanimous decision win, handing Chimaev his first professional loss. Strickland has now pulled off two of the biggest upsets in his two title fight wins against Chimaev and Israel Adesanya. 

Silva subsequently shared a post of Pereira knocking Strickland out cold in 2022. Silva wrote in quotes: "Fast tracked to a title.”

A Simple Misunderstanding

Silva immediately faced backlash from fans who failed to understand the sarcasm. Silva then explained that he was sarcastically mocking those who accused “Poatan” of being favored by the UFC.

“I'm clearly just taking a jab at folks who say Poatan had an"easy" path when he only faced absolute killers, and people saying I'm hating on the guy ffs,” Silva wrote.

Pereira (13-3) and Strickland (31-7) have become good friends after sharing the Octagon. Pereria went on to win the middleweight title in his next fight. While Pereira failed to defend his belt, he then moved up to light heavyweight, won the belt, and defended it thrice before losing to Magomed Ankalaev. The Brazilian exacted revenge by knocking out Ankalaev in 80 seconds in their rematch before vacating the belt and moving up. Pereira is now aiming to create history by winning a third UFC belt when he faced Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight title at UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House.