Jiri Prochazka needs to mix it up to beat Alex Pereira

Jamahal Hill thinks Jiri Prochazka must use all his instruments to beat Alex Pereira.

Prochazka (29-3-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) and Pereira (8-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) will battle for the promotion’s vacant mild heavyweight title within the UFC 295 co-headliner Nov. 11 at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. The belt was relinquished in July by Jamahal Hill, who suffered an Achilles tendon damage in a pickup basketball sport.

As he awaits the winner, Hill isn’t certain who he will likely be combating upon his return. However, if former champion Prochazka needs to get his hand raised, Hill says he can’t simply stand and commerce with Pereira.

“I believe that one’s a tossup, if I’m being fully trustworthy,” Hill mentioned on the “Imagine You Me” podcast. “I believe that combat can actually go both means. I believe Jiri, the way in which he strikes – yeah, he has the wild, sort of unfastened model, however Alex isn’t going for that. He’s not going for the tips. He’s not going for all of the on the market (stuff) as a result of he has a particular mission and particular factors in locations he needs to be when he’s hanging and when he’s participating, and I believe Alex is best at attending to these spots than Jiri is.

“However I believe bodily, Jiri would be the extra bodily, extra bodily sturdy fighter. I believe Jiri has extra MMA expertise. I believe if he can use his unorthodox-ness to, as an alternative of attempting to strike, to really get in and blend and be rounded round in combined martial arts, clinch him up, beat him up within the clinch, drag him to the bottom, I believe that’d moreso be his finest means – making it an all-round combined martial arts combat.”

Hill doesn’t have a desire on who wins, and sees the 2 matchups as entertaining scraps. He appears to be like ahead to combating each.

“Truthfully, if I had my selection and I had my choose, I might haven’t gotten harm,” Hill mentioned. “I might have had them each be within the place that they’re and I’d have whooped their ass one after the other.”