Former undisputed mild heavyweight champion, Jiri Prochazka has all however dominated himself from a tentatively earmarked UFC 292 title combat with division champion, Jamahal Hill on August 19. in Boston, Massachusetts – confirming the timeline is probably going too early for him, as he recovers from shoulder surgical procedure.
Prochazka, the present #1 ranked mild heavyweight challenger, has been sidelined from the Octagon since headlining UFC 275 again in June of final yr in Singapore, the place he captured the undisputed crown with a surprising fifth spherical rallying rear-naked choke submission win over common-foe, Glover Teixeira.
The Czech Republic native was scheduled to headline UFC 282 in December of final yr in opposition to Teixeira in a title rematch with the Brazilian, nevertheless, was compelled from the bout after struggling a catastrophic shoulder harm simply weeks out from the combat. Prochazka elected to relinquish his mild heavyweight title in addition.
As for Hill, the Illinois native minted himself as the sunshine heavyweight title on the flip of the yr in Brazil at UFC 283, defeating common-foe, Teixeira in a one-sided unanimous resolution success.
Predicting a victory over Prochazka in an eventual combat, Dana White’s Contender Sequence product, Hill supplied to combat the previous as quickly as August – at a deliberate UFC 292 pay-per-view occasion.
Jiri Prochazka confirms potential UFC 292 title combat is unlikely
Nevertheless, regardless of initially outlining a possible August or September comeback, Jiri Prochazka has now revealed August would come too early for him to return to the Octagon.
“August continues to be early for me as a result of, and I preserve saying this, I don’t need to simply come there wholesome within the cage and go combat straight away,” Jiri Prochazka mentioned on the Truthful Play Thinker podcast. I need to come into the cage with the truth that I’ve damaged down my model and brought a step and I’m a step forward in my combating model, my profession, my mindset, all the things.” (H/T MMA Shorties)
Touchdown the Octagon again in 2020, Prochazka debuted with a knockout win over Volkan Oezdemir, earlier than taking out multiple-time title challenger, Dominick Reyes with a surprising spinning again elbow KO within the pair’s championship-eliminator.
