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Aline Pereira Signs MMA Deal with Legacy Fighting Alliance

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It’s a family affair for Aline Pereira…

The 32-year-old Brazilian kickboxer, the younger sister of Alex Pereira, will be making a transition to MMA.

Aline Pereira

Pereira, a former Glory kickboxer, has signed a mixed martial arts deal with Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA).

Pereira will make her MMA debut on November 18 against Ultimate Fighter veteran Helen Peralta in a women’s flyweight bout.

Pereira brother, the former two-division Glory Kickboxing champion who is now the top contender in the UFC‘s middleweight division. Alex, 35, will challenge old kickboxing rival Israel Adesanya for Adesanya’s middleweight title in the main event of UFC 281 on Nov. 12 in New York.

Aline, like her brother, trains out of former UFC light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira‘s gym in Connecticut. She is 6-2 in kickboxing, most recently falling to Glory super bantamweight champion Tiffany Van Soest via unanimous decision in January 2021.

Howie Dorough & the Backstreet Boys Team Up with Britney Spears for “Matches”

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Howie Dorough is lighting up the airwaves

The 47-year-old half-Puerto Rican and his Backstreet Boys band mates have joined voices with Britney Spears for the sultry single “Matches.”

Backstreet Boys

The pop crossover appears on Spears’ just-released deluxe edition of her 2016 album, Glory.

“What a GLORIOUS day it is… we’ve been asked about the possibility of a collab like this for the past 20 years and today is the day!!” the boy band wrote on Twitter. “#BritneyXBackstreet is finally here!”

Spears shared the sentiment.

“I’m so excited to hear what you think about our song together,” she tweeted. “Matches” featuring my friends @backstreetboys is out now !!!! I’m so excited to hear what you think about our song together !!!! You can also listen to Glory Deluxe everywhere now !!!!”

 

Glory’s deluxe issue also features four remixes of Spears’ “Mood Ring.”