Jiri Prochazka has reiterated curiosity in a possible transfer all the way down to middleweight.
Prochazka (30-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) now has fallen quick twice to gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira by knockout. Exterior of Pereira, Prochazka has completed all 4 of his different UFC opponents.
Prochazka doesn’t see himself having points making 185 kilos and mentioned a transfer down would rely upon the end result of the middleweight title struggle between champion Dricus Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) and Israel Adesanya at UFC 305. Du Plessis wound up submitting Adesanya in Spherical 4.
“If Adesanya wins, I’ll keep within the gentle heavyweight division, but when Du Plessis wins, I’ll observe him,” Prochazka mentioned in Czech, based on his YouTube channel translation. I’ll clear issues up a bit there and take the belt. However I really feel good and powerful within the gentle heavyweight division, regardless that the fellows there are a bit heavier.
“Virtually all of them. So I’ve to say that I’ve no downside bodily and strength-wise, or in any means, with clearing them out, however it will actually be a problem for me to go for the belt within the (middleweight) division after which transfer up. However I’ll actually let it move and see the way it unfolds.”
If Prochazka stays at gentle heavyweight, he’s open to Jamahal Hill subsequent however says that struggle isn’t at present within the works. Like Prochazka, Hill’s most up-to-date struggle is a knockout loss to Pereira.
“That’s attention-grabbing as a result of there hasn’t been any negotiation or dialogue with the supervisor or anybody else but,” Prochazka mentioned. “I simply despatched one message relating to Hill, simply as an informational word, and I’m unsure if something has progressed or if somebody let one thing slip. However for now it’s all simply hypothesis.”
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