Alex Pereira’s trainer, Plinio Cruz, announces return to the fight: ‘Dad is back!’
You probably know Plinio Cruz as the coach, translator and best friend of two-division champion Alex Pereira. But before he was attached at the hip to “Poatan,” Cruz was also an MMA fighter… and could fight again in the fall. “Big Daddy” Cruz fought from 2008 to 2019, earning an 8-9 record with stints in…