EA Sports Picks Alex Pereira and Max Holloway for UFC 6 Covers as Adesanya’s Cameo Goes Viral

Overview

• - The cover reveal Tuesday featured Alex Pereira and Max Holloway on separate versions of EA Sports’ UFC 6, with a sliver of Israel Adesanya’s shoulder visible on Pereira’s art.
• - Adesanya posted a meme video on Instagram riffing on being cropped from the image, and the post drew more than 127,000 likes within six hours, according to Bloody Elbow.
• - EA Sports says the new UFC game is slated to launch in June, and the publisher is using split covers to spotlight two of the sport’s most prominent stars.
• - Pereira is booked to face Ciryl Gane in June at UFC White House for an interim heavyweight title, a step toward his stated attempt to become the UFC’s first three-division champion.
• - The moment taps into the Adesanya–Pereira rivalry that saw Pereira win at UFC 281 and Adesanya even the series with a first-round knockout at UFC 287, keeping their stories linked in and out of the cage.