Jiri Prochazka isn’t focused on defending himself contained in the Octagon.
The previous UFC gentle heavyweight champion scored one other huge win on MMA’s largest stage earlier this month, scoring a third-round knockout in opposition to ex-titleholder Jamahal Hill at UFC 311 in Los Angeles.
Prochazka’s conflict with Hill was nothing in need of a slugfest with the Czech usually selecting to maintain his palms low and consuming something and every thing ‘Candy Goals’ threw his means. It was a well-known sight as Prochazka usually deploys this type of preventing, and to this point it has served him fairly effectively other than a few brutal knockout losses in opposition to 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 palms low, Prochazka defined it in quite simple phrases — he doesn’t have to defend himself.
“With the palms up is a method,” Prochazka stated throughout an look on The Joe Rogan Expertise. “With the palms down, that is your pure posture. You spend more often than not on this. This, for me, means defending. I don’t have to defend myself once I see every thing, once I really feel every thing. That’s why I don’t have to maintain my palms 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 pondering of the opponent, to know what he needs to do earlier than he does it.”
In 31 profession wins, Jiri Prochazka has 27 profession knockouts, 4 of these coming underneath the UFC banner. What’s subsequent for ‘BJP’ stays to be seen, but when Pereira manages to get previous Magomed Ankalaev in March, we could possibly be taking a look at a 3rd showdown between Prochazka and ‘Poatan’ this summer season.
