After taking a day to consider it, former UFC gentle heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is aware of the struggle he desires subsequent.
Hill suffered a first-round knockout loss to champ Alex Pereira within the UFC 300 primary occasion Saturday at T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas. It was Hill’s first struggle since tearing his ACL final July in a pickup basketball sport, with many questioning if he was returning to the cage too quickly. Hill’s surgically repaired knee didn’t seem like a problem, however he nonetheless got here out on the shedding finish of a devastating end.
Now Hill is all about rebounding from defeat, and he sees fellow former champ and UFC 300 competitor Jiri Prochazka as choice to get again on observe. Hill let this be identified Monday in a put up on X.
I dared to be nice in opposition to adversity and in opposition to an awesome problem and got here up quick on the highest degree on this planet!!! I answered the decision twice on quick discover to struggle for a championship that almost all won’t ever struggle for!!! On to the following @jiri_bjp least ultimate make it occur!!
— Jamahal Hill (@JamahalH) April 15, 2024
Though Hill and Prochazka have been as soon as lined as much as meet after Hill claimed the title vacated by Prochazka in November 2022, it appears unlikely that Prochazka would have curiosity popping out of UFC 300. After beating Aleksandar Rakic by second-round TKO on Saturday, Prochazka made it clear that he’s received his sights set on one other gentle heavyweight title shot.
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