Jiří Procházka was unable to reclaim the UFC mild heavyweight title in a rematch with Alex Pereira this previous weekend in Las Vegas.
Regardless of believing that he had made some vital changes for his method this time round, UFC 303 was a much more one-sided affair than their earlier encounter final November.
Although it’s true that Procházka was having success within the first battle till he was stopped within the second spherical, he was seemingly preventing a shedding battle principally because of the harm that was executed to his leg early on within the battle.
The identical factor occurred on Saturday night time however Pereira was capable of finding a house for his devastating left hook even earlier on this event, earlier than ending the battle in the beginning of the second spherical with a head kick.
Firas Zahabi Criticizes Jiří Procházka For Being Glad To Strike With Alex Pereira
The highly-regarded MMA coach Firas Zahabi gave his breakdown of the battle throughout a current video on the Tristar Gymnasium YouTube channel.
He was very important of the method that Procházka got here into the rematch with as a result of there wasn’t sufficient emphasis positioned on switching issues up on Pereira.
Zahabi referenced how there’s a stark distinction within the quantity of MMA expertise that each males have, with Procházka coming into the principle occasion with 36 professional fights in comparison with Pereira’s 13.
The previous coach of Georges St-Pierre couldn’t perceive why the challenger wouldn’t look to make the most of this by attempting to take the previous world champion kickboxing out of his consolation zone.
“You’d assume Jiří would have like 10 extra years below his belt in wrestling and nonetheless he didn’t even fathom a takedown. He tried one little clinch, he didn’t even knock on that door. Very disappointing technique by Jiří. Jiří was simply seemingly completely happy to strike and I’ll inform you, throughout the first minute of spherical one, “Poatan” had landed like 4 kicks and you might inform he was already hurting Jiří’s leg.
“Jiří’s recreation plan and efficiency, I feel that was his worst method to a battle ever, he’s ever had. I heard he was like three days in a cave someplace meditating, excited about this battle, how he’s going to method it. Sadly for him it actually didn’t work.”
