White reacted to Pereira's desire to fight Du Plessis

UFC CEO Dana White has made it clear that he's willing to consider promotion champion Alex Pereira's idea of returning to the middleweight division for a title fight with Dricus Du Plessis.

"I think Pereira is just unbelievably awesome. That's what I think of him. He wants to go up to the heavyweight division, he wants to go down to the middleweight division - he wants to fight everywhere. That's why people love him - they love fighters like that. Alex wants to fight everybody, I like that.

Everybody loves Alex, he's great, and that gives us a lot of options for picking opponents. It's good to deal with a guy like him. He was on vacation and took the fight at the last minute - how about that? Fans love everything about this guy," MMA Mania quotes White as saying.

Recall that Pereira will defend the bantamweight belt against Khalil Rountree on October 5 at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City, USA.