At the beginning of March at UFC 313, Dominate Champion Alex Pereira lost his title against Magomed Ankalaev by unanimous decision. Following the fight, Magomed Ankalaev‘s team accused Pereira of cheating, by greasing his body and making it harder to be taken down after Ankalaev failed to score a single takedown. Although the Russian wasn’t able to take Alex Pereira down, the Brazilian alarmingly only threw 11 head strikes the entire fight, leading to questions regarding his health going into the fight. Immediately following the fight, UFC icon, Joe Rogan questioned Pereira’s ‘uncharacteristic’ performance, stating that he didn’t look himself. That notion was agreed by his commentary partner, Jon Anik, who told Bloody Elbow in an exclusive interview, that Pereira didn’t seem himself even during his famous walkout. Now a few weeks removed from his loss, Rogan has claimed that ‘Poatan’ went into his UFC 313 main event with a broken hand and norovirus. “They say he fought with a broken hand and norovirus against Ankalaev, he fought with a broken toe before when he beat Jiri Prochazka, he had a destroyed knee,” Rogan claimed during an episode of Fight Companion during UFC London on Saturday. Whether or not this is true, we will most likely find out when they have the anticipated rematch later this year. Personally I believe this is all just excuses made up by Joe Rogan to save a part of that superstar that Alex was but what do you guys think?