Jamahal Hill ballooned as much as practically the heavyweight restrict firstly of camp for UFC 311.
Hill returns to motion this Saturday when he faces fellow former mild heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka in a extremely anticipated featured conflict at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
“Candy Goals” was requested a couple of member of his workforce that he lower 50 kilos throughout camp, which Hill confirmed — though, it might be just a few extra.
“It’s been easy,” Hill stated at media day. “I consider after the harm, I used to be like 260. A few instances once I needed to go check it out, to go prepare, it wasn’t actually feeling — this was again in August, September — so I took a while and determined to only let it relaxation, let it heal up, and it was good resolution as a result of I’m getting good outcomes with that.
“The burden lower hasn’t actually been powerful in any respect.”
Hill and Prochazka have been a collision course since Hill received the title Prochazka vacated at UFC 283 in January 2023. Each males handled critical accidents, and each enter the octagon contemporary off of knockout losses to present champion Alex Pereira.
Forward of the battle, Hill has been crucial of Prochazka’s fashion, however when requested if he feels Prochazka’s recreation has modified a lot since his UFC debut win in opposition to Volkan Oezdemir, Hill says no a lot appears completely different, but it surely doesn’t imply that it doesn’t work.
“The battle type of ended fairly early, however his fights, his fashion is just about the identical,” Hill defined. “If it ain’t broke, don’t repair it, I suppose is type of just like the factor. Clearly he’s had the losses now, however earlier than then he had like 25-plus knockouts on the time.
“He’s confirmed that his fashion is efficient, and it may be efficient in opposition to the very best on the planet.”
