Perriera is heavy, but the entries into takedowns and trip attempts were really poor. You need to get their hips moving, the arm control was quite good once he got him down but he still never seemed like he was in control and putting weight and pressure on the right places. Perreira used strength and power in getting out of every situation, it's in those movements that a fighter who has trained specifically for this uses small adjustments to use that power push against them. In fact, Usman is really good at that when he goes into wrestling transitions. You can't expect him to ever be that level, but i would fully expect him to be light years ahead of Perreira in that aspect and he wasn't really.
On the feet, honestly i thought he was lighting Perriera up but he got tired and made a miscalculation in the final round that cost him. Perreira is a beast, he took some good shots and if the first round had gone any longer he probably would've been toast but he recovered really well. The biggest thing going for him, and Izzy tbf, is that there isn't a really big wrestling threat in the MW division. You saw when Izzy went up a weight and Blachowicz just used his weight and power to take him down and keep him there, if either of these guys came up against anyone like that they'd be in deep shit. I actually think Usman would give Perreira trouble, as long as he didn't try and get macho with the kickboxing.
