Now Reyes will shift his focus to another championship rematch, assuming all relevant chips fall into place.
“So I’m having my son in December,“ Reyes (15-4) told MMA Junkie. ”So best case, Alex [Pereira] wins, he’s a good friend of mine. I want him to win. And then he’ll rematch Jiri [Prochazka], and then Jiri wins, and then I rematch Jiri at the White House. I’m a big patriot, that would be a dream come true. Best case scenario in terms of narratives for the fight, right? The rematch with Jiri — that’s the fight. I don’t really want to fight Alex because he’s my friend. I’ll fight him, but I don’t really want to. [Magomed] Ankalaev, you know, I’ll fight the guy, whatever. Same with Khalil [Rountree Jr.], it’s like whatever, but I have no history or like, ‘I want to get that back’ kind of deal.“
“The Jiri fight was a great fight while it lasted,” Reyes added. “And I think we do it again, it’ll be another amazing fight. And I got nothing but respect for Jiri. Like, we’ve partied together. I mean, I believe it or not, we’ve gone out to the club and danced. He’s a cool dude, man. Everybody in the division is pretty cool; but, yeah, we’ll see what happens. All I know is I’ve been laser being focused on this fight and that’s really all I’m worried about to be completely honest with you. I guess next week I can give you a better breakdown on the main event and those fights and all that. But right now, I’m focused on this. I’m gonna get the win, and then we’ll see what happens.”
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