Jiri Prochazka adopted up his unbelievable knockout of Khalil Rountree Jr. with some hilarious evaluation in his post-fight press convention.
“I began to imagine in my protection, in [keeping] my fingers up. Man, I didn’t perceive that that works! Palms up and head motion. It’s the primary time I linked them collectively, and it labored!”
As a reminder, that is the previous UFC mild heavyweight champion admitting that he didn’t assume having a excessive guard and utilizing head motion was an efficient type of protection in MMA.
Who am I to guage? Prochazka obtained the job accomplished as soon as once more with a improbable knockout in opposition to Rountree Jr. within the third and ultimate spherical. It was a end that he desperately wanted, after having misplaced the primary two rounds of the struggle on the judges’ scorecards.
Jiri Prochazka’s Head Motion
Jiri Prochazka displayed spectacular head motion within the ultimate spherical as he pressed ahead for the end. Preventing within the pocket is the place the Czech fighter excels, as he possesses great energy in his fingers (and elbows), he’s fast to slide oncoming punches, and, even when he does get hit, he has a robust chin. It appears that evidently he wants a struggle to be a battle to carry out at his greatest.
Did Jiri Prochazka Hold His Palms Up?
Relating to Prochazka’s feedback about his fingers being up, I’ve but to see this from him for sustained intervals of a struggle. Even within the ultimate spherical, by which he dominated Rountree Jr, there was no excessive guard from the fighter. Prochazka’s chin remained open for counters quite a few occasions, along with his fingers habitually remaining down by his waist.
It was the chaos he created and the unrelenting barrage of assaults at a excessive tempo that received the struggle for him. Rountree Jr.’s gasoline tank regarded depleted at this stage, while Prochazka, then again, regarded as if he was simply getting began. The bombardment of punches and elbows finally proved an excessive amount of for the American to deal with, falling to the canvas, defeated, halfway by means of the ultimate spherical.
