May Jamahal Hill’s endless barrage of excuses and fixed arguing with battle followers on-line be his undoing at UFC 311?
On Saturday, ‘Candy Desires’ returns to the Octagon for the primary time since struggling a brutal first-round knockout in opposition to gentle heavyweight king Alex Pereira at UFC 300. For the reason that loss, Hill has commonly mentioned his disdain for the consequence, suggesting that referee Herb Dean’s transient stoppage attributable to an unintentional 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 supplied to go a number of rounds.
In consequence, ‘Candy Desires’ has been relentlessly trolled on-line and dubbed a sore loser by UFC followers. However as a substitute of ignoring the feedback, Hill typically chooses to snap again and deal with his haters on YouTube — a call that might finally value him in opposition to a fighter as harmful and disciplined as Jiri Prochazka.
Will Jamahal Hill get crushed underneath the burden of his personal excuses?
Discussing Hill’s upcoming return to the Octagon alongside her husband Dan Hardy, UFC flyweight standout Veronica Hardy steered that the previous 205-pound titleholder’s dependancy to social media, on high of a slew of different obstacles, may very well be his undoing this Saturday evening contained in the Intuit Dome.
“It’s simply sort of been harm after harm [for Hill],” Hardy mentioned on the Outlawed Picks Podcast. “He’s sort of placed on weight, misplaced weight and stuff. And Jiri, he’s going to be extra constant in being disciplined and in search of a method to make things better moderately than being distracted by all the pieces else [social media] round him…It means you may take issues which can be dangerous and make them higher with out them crushing you a lot or spending a lot time on-line attempting to answer different folks [suggesting that’s what Hill does].”
Jamahal Hill goes into his tenth promotional look with a 6-2 document and one no-contest. Undoubtedly, his largest victory got here in opposition to Glover Teixeira at UFC 283 to win the vacant gentle heavyweight title. Hill vacated the belt months later after struggling a ruptured Achilles throughout a charity basketball sport.
Since then, his solely look contained in the Octagon was in opposition to Pereira. He was scheduled to return over the summer time in opposition to Khalil Rountree Jr. and Carlos Ulberg, however neither of these fights got here to fruition.
