Alex Pereira Reveals Why He Got ‘Stone Face’ as His ‘Child’

Alex Periera is famous for his brutal knockouts in the UFC. The Brazilian star is going to face Jiri Prochazka at UFC 295 for a title shot. He recently adopted a moai figure as his child and later explained the reason.

Why Alex Periera adopted a new ‘child’s

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In an interview recently, Alex Pereira said that he calls the stone sculpture ‘Tony’.

Further, he added that he doesn’t smile too much, so he ‘liked the correlation between both’.

Stone hands, stone face

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Periera might have used the stone face as a joke. But his hands are no joke to opponents in the octagon. His name ‘Poatan’ means ‘stone hands’ in the local Tupi language of Brazil.

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