Alex ‘Poatan’ Pereira has been the talk of the MMA community in recent days, but not for what he’s usually known for. There have been rumors circulating about Pereira breaking up with his beautiful girlfriend, Merle. But why did the rumors even start in the first place?
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‘Poatan’ was quite active on his social media, posting videos of himself and his girlfriend quite often. However, fans were shocked to see the Brazilian unfollow his girlfriend. Moreover, the rumors gained more momentum when Alex Pereira decided to make some changes to his social media account.
Alex Pereira removes pictures of Merle from his account
Just when fans hoped that the rumors would be nothing more than that, the UFC light heavyweight champion deleted all of Merle’s pictures from his account. Meanwhile, he also posted a video of him shadowboxing.
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This led fans to start speculating more about the relationship between the UFC light heavyweight champion and his girlfriend. Neither of them has actually confirmed anything at this point in time. But fans are definitely getting restless to know the status between the two.
Fans react to the Poatan Deleting Merle’s pictures
An MMA account on X (formerly known as Twitter) reposted a video of ‘Poatan’ Shadowboxing with the caption, “Alex Pereira dumps his wife, deletes all of their photos together AND POSTS A VIDEO OF HIMSELF SHADOWBOXING. WHAT IS GOING ON? @AlexPereiraUFC”
Fight fans had a lot of questions regarding Alex Pereira and his girlfriend, Merle, after the post uploaded by MMACHICK_. Here are some of the comments on the post.
A fan questioned if Merle was the first or second wife of Alex Pereira
Is this the second wife or the first one? I remembered he and his son’s mother were separated or divorced, and then he got with the lady that was shielding one of his son’s face in the 2nd Izzy fight.
— RichardAK@Arsenal. (@RichardAk4747) December 29, 2023
A fan made a humorous remark implying that Pereira is evolving into his next form after the breakup
Bro is evolving into his next form. This is the way.
— Alex (@kennebeckalex) December 29, 2023
One questioned if the two were married.
They werent married, were they?
— paul (@pauliseintwitta) December 29, 2023
There was another comment that hilariously named Israel Adesanya as the reason for the breakup
damn izzy broke alex so bad he breaking they family apart….
— albert (@AAJ24_) December 29, 2023
Hands of stone, heart of stone 🗿
— S W I P E R | 🦊 (@BMZrO) December 29, 2023
One person pointed out that the breakup hasn’t been confirmed yet
dumps is crazy you don’t even know what happened 😭 bros just living
— mustafaabutair (@mustafaabutair1) December 29, 2023
A comment pointed out how Merle and Dee Devlin differed
Guess she’s not the Mrs. McGregor type.
— Nick 🏴☠️ (@NickChees) December 29, 2023
A person made a reference to Tito Ortiz’s marriage in the comment
I believe it was Tito Ortiz who first said “There was never no marriage.”
— Witchfinder GEN (@genfinderwitch) December 29, 2023
Seeing how things have escalated between the two, do you guys believe that Alex Pereira and Merle have broken up? Let us know in the comments section below.
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