Lower than a month out from a monumental UFC 300 card, occasion headliner, Alex Pereira nonetheless stays a definite betting favourite to beat incoming foe, Jamahal Hill – and efficiently retain his mild heavyweight crown as a part of one of many largest occasion’s of Octagon historical past.
Pereira, a former undisputed middleweight champion, returns to the Octagon subsequent month in the primary occasion of UFC 300, taking over Dana White’s Contender Sequence alum, Hill in his first tried protection of his title at 205 kilos.
Final outing, the GLORY Kickboxing Corridor of Fame inductee landed his second promotional title with a blistering second spherical TKO win over former champion, Jiri Prochazka, felling the Czech Republic native with a stoppage at UFC 295 final November at Madison Sq. Backyard.
For Hill, the Illinois native has but to make his comeback since he defeated Alex Pereira’s compatriot, shut good friend and teammate, Glover Teixeira final January on enemy territory in Brazil.
Alex Pereira stays favourite to beat Jamahal Hill at UFC 300
And coming into his first struggle since suffered a ruptured achilles final summer time, Hill is closing as a sizeable +130 betting underdog to beat the incumbent -155 betting favourite, Alex Pereira atop the T-Cellular Enviornment card at UFC 300.
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First lifting Octagon gold again in 2021, Sao Paulo hanging sensation, Alex Pereira turned in a come-from-behind win over arch-rival, Israel Adesanya at Madison Sq. Backyard preventing by way of adversity to forestall the bout seeing a decide’s scorecard, with a late fifth spherical TKO win over the Metropolis Kickboxing staple.
Casting his line in mild heavyweight waters quickly after his thunderous second spherical KO loss to the Nigerian-Kiwi final April, Pereira bested one other former Octagon gold holder within the type of Jan Blachowicz in a slender resolution win final July at UFC 291 – organising his title cost towards Prochazka.
Regardless of struggling a catastophic ankle damage throughout a pick-up basketball recreation with UFC alums and fellow fighters final summer time forward of UFC 290 throughout Worldwide Combat Week, the above-mentioned Hill will nonetheless enter his struggle with Pereira within the midst of an attention-grabbing 4 struggle successful run.
Along with his sole loss in that timeframe coming within the type of a nasty armbar submission loss to Paul Craig, Hill has since loved wins over the likes of Jimmy Crute, Johnny Walker, and Thiago Santos – ending Pereira’s compatriots with a pair of knockout wins.
And regardless of headlining the promotion’s monumentla UFC 300 card subsequent month, Hill couldn’t assist however reveal the showdown towards Pereira got here in moderately shocking and hasty trend.
“I discovered for positive, for positive that it was locked in since I’ve been in right here,” Jamahal Hill mentioned throughout an interview at UFC 298. “After I bought to the venue, we talked about it, and I agreed to it yesterday [Friday].”
“Look, ‘Candy Desires’ isn’t gonna mislead the individuals, I ain’t mislead you guys,” Jamahal Hill defined. “I instructed you what I knew – partially. …All people desires to be on [UFC] 300, however realistically, it didn’t actually come on my radar, it didn’t actually occur till yesterday, I’m not evern going to lie, yesterday.”
Who wins at UFC 300 subsequent month: Alex Pereira or Jamahal Hill?
