Jiri Prochazka isn’t considering defending himself contained in the Octagon.
The previous UFC gentle heavyweight champion scored one other massive win on MMA’s largest stage earlier this month, scoring a third-round knockout towards ex-titleholder Jamahal Hill at UFC 311 in Los Angeles.
Prochazka’s conflict with Hill was nothing wanting a slugfest with the Czech usually selecting to maintain his arms low and consuming something and the whole lot ‘Candy Desires’ threw his means. It was a well-recognized sight as Prochazka usually deploys this fashion of preventing, and to this point it has served him fairly nicely other than a few brutal knockout losses towards the division’s reigning champion, Alex Pereira.
Jiri Prochazka tries to learn his opponent’s thoughts
Providing some perception into why he chooses to maintain his arms low, Prochazka defined it in quite simple phrases — he doesn’t must defend himself.
“With the arms up is a method,” Prochazka mentioned throughout an look on The Joe Rogan Expertise. “With the arms down, that is your pure posture. You spend more often than not on this. This, for me, means defending. I don’t must defend myself after I see the whole lot, after I really feel the whole lot. That’s why I don’t must hold my arms up, as a result of I’m loopy sufficient to undergo, to be within the second, to emphasize my physique a lot on this scenario—to see each motion, each begin of the motion of my opponent—that I can react earlier than he begins.
“The subsequent stage is to attempt to learn the considering of the opponent, to know what he desires to do earlier than he does it.”
In 31 profession wins, Jiri Prochazka has 27 profession knockouts, 4 of these coming beneath the UFC banner. What’s subsequent for ‘BJP’ stays to be seen, but when Pereira manages to get previous Magomed Ankalaev in March, we may very well be a 3rd showdown between Prochazka and ‘Poatan’ this summer season.
