Video: Clueless Security Tails Pereira At Local Wal-Mart

Not even being a former UFC champion will stop you from getting profiled at the local Wal-Mart, apparently.

Alex Pereira is a former two-division GLORY kickboxing champion and the former UFC middleweight champion. His fights against Israel Adesanya over the past twelve months have generated some of the biggest moments for the sport. He’s also a very scary looking dude, which may be why a Wal-Mart security staff decided they needed to keep an eye on him as he perused the store shelves.

The video posted to Pereira’s Instagram stories quickly went viral on Twitter, where fans joked about how the employee had no idea who he was tailing

“Wal-Mart dude doesn’t even know…” one person commented.

“Damn, bro got racially profiled,” another wrote. “He’s truly American now.”

Pereira isn’t exactly the sort to get too bent out of shape over a situation like this. Even after Israel Adesanya mocked his son following their last fight, “Poatan” insisted there was no bad blood outside the cage. When the two met by happenstance at an airport, Pereira was cool but polite during the interaction.

We’d say Wal-Mart guy is lucky he didn’t try this with a Mike Perry or Nate Diaz.

Even though Pereira and Adesanya are 1-1 in the UFC (3-1 across all combat sports), there’s no rubber match on the horizon for the two fighters. Instead, Alex is headed up to light heavyweight where he’ll fight Jan Blachowicz at UFC 291 on July 29th. Israel Adesanya isn’t formally booked for his next title defense yet, but all signs point to him fighting at UFC 293 in Australia on September 10th.