Khalil Rountree Jr. delivered an undeniably spectacular efficiency towards Alex Pereira.
After stringing collectively 5 straight wins contained in the Octagon, ‘The Struggle Horse’ went toe-to-toe with ‘Poatan’ at UFC 307 in Salt Lake Metropolis. And although he put collectively one hell of a displaying, he finally got here up brief, struggling a TKO within the fourth spherical of their mild heavyweight headliner.
Wanting again on the bout throughout a current look on The Ariel Helwani Present, Rountree Jr. was grateful for the popularity he bought from fighters and followers alike, even when it wasn’t the outcome he’d hoped for.
“I put my complete coronary heart into that struggle. Everybody was giving me props and congratulating me and telling me how a lot respect and admiration they’d for me after the struggle, however I needed to win. I wasn’t there to be second place.
“The very best factor that I did to stability it was simply get again to coaching and understand that I nonetheless bought to maintain climbing. It was good to have the motivation and the help from the followers and acquire the eye of the followers, however I believe that, blended with getting again to coaching, the coaching helped the stability for positive.”
Khalil Rountree Jr. seems to be to get again into the win column at UFC Baku
Rountree Jr. will look to climb again into the win column on Saturday when the promotion heads to Azerbaijan for UFC Baku. In the primary occasion of the night, ‘The Struggle Horse’ will tackle former 205-pound titleholder Jamahal Hill.
Like Rountree Jr., Hill can be seeking to bounce again after struggling a brutal third-round knockout loss towards Jiri Prochazka in January.
