Alice Pereira is stacking up achievements lately, and not all of them are happening inside the cage. A little over a week after knocking out Daria Zhelezniakova, the Bahia native was promoted to purple belt in jiu-jitsu, according to Ag. Fight. The promotion caps a strong stretch for the rising bantamweight. Pereira defeated Daria Zhelezniakova by TKO (retirement) at 5:00 of the first round, the fight ending right at the five minute mark, and that performance has her sitting at number 15 in the women's bantamweight rankings. A finish like the one over Zhelezniakova, paired with a new belt on the mats, points to a fighter whose game is rounding into shape on multiple fronts at once. Ag. Fight's report framed the belt promotion as another step in Pereira's development, running under the line "On the way to the top." For a prospect already inside the top 15 of a stacked 135 pound division, that kind of praise from her own camp carries weight, especially coming right on the heels of a first round finish. What happens next for Pereira in the Octagon hasn't been addressed in the reporting, but between the ranking, the finish over Zhelezniakova, and now a new purple belt validating her ground game, the pieces are lining up for her to keep moving up the bantamweight ladder. Division rivals watching her tape will now have to account for a jiu-jitsu game that just got an official stamp of approval to go along with the knockout power she already showed.