Alex Pereira has just two weeks to shed 29lbs (13kg) ahead of his next fight at UFC 320.Pereira faces UFC light heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev in the main event of the Las Vegas card on October 4.Pereira lost the light heavyweight title to Ankalaev in the main event of UFC 313 in MarchGetty‘Poatan’ now has only 14 days to cut down from 234lbs to the UFC’s light heavyweight title limit weight of 205lbsGettyThe Brazilian fan-favourite and two-weight UFC champion dropped the 205lbs title to Ankalaev at UFC 313 in March, suffering a unanimous decision defeat after five rounds.After months of back-and-forth talk with UFC brass, which included a wild scandal in which Pereira lied about being hacked, the pair’s rematch was then scheduled for the headline act of UFC 320 in what is set to be a packed end-of-year schedule for Dana White‘s promotion.In the build-up to his second fight with Ankalaev, Pereira has teased UFC fans with a move up to heavyweight, hitting the scales at over 240lbs three months ago.And things haven’t changed much in a recent social media update from the 38-year-old.Alex Pereira shows off insane weight ahead of UFC 320In a video doing the rounds online, Pereira shows that he currently weighs a whopping 234lbs (106kg).This means that he has only 14 days to lose the extra pounds needed to make the UFC’s title limit weight for a light heavyweight bout of 205lbs.But it’s not like Pereira, who has been a champion at light heavyweight and middleweight, hasn’t done it before, as some MMA fans nodded to in their reactions to his weight.MMA fans astounded at Pereira’s weight cutOne took to X and said: “How does he do it?”A second added: “Wait I didn’t realise how close this fight was.”A third responded: “Pereira is so lean for 234lbs.View Tweet: https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFC320?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwWhile a fourth wrote: “After this, we gotta at least give him a shot at triple champ.”Pereira entered the UFC as a middleweight in 2021, making his debut in November of the same year, having to trim down to 185lbs for every fight.After three consecutive wins and two Performance of the Night bonuses, ‘Poatan’ was rewarded with his first shot at UFC gold.He knocked out Israel Adesanya at UFC 281 just one year after his debut to become the new middleweight champion, before dropping the belt to ‘The Last Stylebender’ in a rematch five months later.He then moved up to light heavyweight and stopped the likes of Jiri Prochazka, Jamahal Hill, and Khalil Rountree to assert his dominance at 205lbs.His mega weight cut ahead of UFC 320 opens up the conversation yet again about the dangers of weight cutting.Pereira faces a brutal weight cut before he has the chance to reclaim the UFC light heavyweight titleGettyUFC veteran Paul Craig, who retired after losing to Modestas Bukauskas this month, revealed to talkSPORT.com in March that he developed an eating disorder cutting down for middleweight bouts.Women’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison has also previously outlined the dark side of weight cutting, which Pereira will have to endure ahead of his huge title fight.