May Jamahal Hill’s unending barrage of excuses and fixed arguing with battle followers on-line be his undoing at UFC 311?
On Saturday, ‘Candy Goals’ returns to the Octagon for the primary time since struggling a brutal first-round knockout in opposition to mild heavyweight king Alex Pereira at UFC 300. Because the loss, Hill has commonly mentioned his disdain for the end result, suggesting that referee Herb Dean’s transient stoppage as a result of an unintended low blow gave ‘Poatan’ an unfair benefit.
Hill even tried to select a battle with Pereira on the UFC Efficiency Institute earlier than promptly strolling away when ‘Poatan’ tossed him a pair of gloves and provided to go a couple of rounds.
In consequence, ‘Candy Goals’ has been relentlessly trolled on-line and dubbed a sore loser by UFC followers. However as a substitute of ignoring the feedback, Hill usually chooses to snap again and deal with his haters on YouTube — a choice that might in the end value him in opposition to a fighter as harmful and disciplined as Jiri Prochazka.
Will Jamahal Hill get crushed below the burden of his personal excuses?
Discussing Hill’s upcoming return to the Octagon alongside her husband Dan Hardy, UFC flyweight standout Veronica Hardy instructed that the previous 205-pound titleholder’s habit to social media, on prime of a slew of different obstacles, could possibly be his undoing this Saturday evening contained in the Intuit Dome.
“It’s simply type of been damage after damage [for Hill],” Hardy stated on the Outlawed Picks Podcast. “He’s type of placed on weight, misplaced weight and stuff. And Jiri, he’s going to be extra constant in being disciplined and on the lookout for a approach to sort things relatively than being distracted by all the things else [social media] round him…It means you possibly can take issues which can be unhealthy and make them higher with out them crushing you a lot or spending a lot time on-line making an attempt to answer different individuals [suggesting that’s what Hill does].”
Jamahal Hill goes into his tenth promotional look with a 6-2 file and one no-contest. Undoubtedly, his largest victory got here in opposition to Glover Teixeira at UFC 283 to win the vacant mild heavyweight title. Hill vacated the belt months later after struggling a ruptured Achilles throughout a charity basketball recreation.
Since then, his solely look contained in the Octagon was in opposition to Pereira. He was scheduled to return over the summer season in opposition to Khalil Rountree Jr. and Carlos Ulberg, however neither of these fights got here to fruition.
