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UFC Fighter Pereira Overcomes Groin Injury to Secure Knockout Victory

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UFC fighter Pereira brushes off a groin shot and goes on to win by knockout despite the injury. Pereira reveals the injury during a post-fight press conference but states that he was determined to push through. He stops the referee from pausing the bout and proceeds to knock out his opponent with a left hook.

, then brushed off a groin shot just moments before authoring a devastating knockout victory 3:14 into the opening round of Saturday’s headliner at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

“That happened in the last couple of weeks,” Pereira said. “It’s not something that I was going to pull out of the fight. I had to push through. It happened in the moment of my camp that I had to be slowing down my training, so I had to just push through.”was about to step in and pause the bout when Hill appeared to land a kick to the groin of his opponent. Instead, Pereira extended an arm to halt the referee, signaling that he was fine to continue.

“My game plan was to start throwing hands after that, so then he threw the groin shot, but it did not really hurt too much, so I chose to just keep pushing so I did not have to reset the distance. Capitalize on the moment.”

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