Ahead of his high stakes showdown with Jiri Prochazka early next year, Jamahal Hill says that his loss to light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira isn’t the same as Jiri Prochazka’s two defeats to the 205-pound pacesetter.
Hill and Prochazka will fight in a featured bout on the UFC 311 card from Inglewood, California on January 18 in a fight that will likely establish a top contender to Pereira’s world title.
Both men, of course, have had their opportunities against the Brazilian in the past and are a combined 0-3 in those bouts — but Hill, who was knocked out in the first round by Pereira in the UFC 300 main event earlier this year, is of the opinion that the manner of their respective performances were not the same.
“Bro, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?” Hill said in a recent YouTube video in response to a prior comment by Prochazka in which he said he saw “nothing” from the American in his fight with the champ back in April.
“We had the same opponent last fight. In your last performance, you got dominated. Dominated and knocked out. Completely shut down, completely exposed and then got done, bad, bro. You got did bad,” he added, as noted by Bloody Elbow.
“I got caught, you got dominated, there’s a huge difference, you feel what I’m saying? My man’s (Pereira) literally had your ponytail leaning to the left. I hope you wear that same ponytail in LA so I can lean that motherf*cker to the left right back for you. This is insane,” he said.
UFC 311 is set to be topped by a lightweight world title bout between champion Islam Makhachev and Arman Tsarukyan.