Jiri Prochazka views Jamahal Hill’s trash talk as a lack of confidence.
Prochazka (30-5-1 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Hill (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) will look to rebound from knockout losses to light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira when they square off Jan. 18 at UFC 311 from Inuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
Former champions Prochazka and Hill have been on a collision course for a while and have traded barbs on a few occasions. Prochazka is happy to finally get the opportunity to fight Hill.
“He’s an opponent who I wanted before, and he had a lot of things to say about me and my my style, my everything, whatever,” Prochazka told MMA Fighting. “So right now, it’s time to fight, that’s all. And I’m ready to show my best, and that’s all. I’m going for the win.”
Hill had some harsh words about Prochazka’s style, branding him as a low-IQ fighter who takes a lot of damage. However, Prochazka thinks Hill’s trash talk is very telling of how he really feels heading into their fight.
“I don’t care what he’s saying because it’s not just primarily about me. It just shows what is in his head,” Prochazka said. “Man, I don’t care about what other people say about me because when you know how this works, how to work the mental of the human body, so how people can speak about others and why they speak about others, especially when he don’t know me like personally. He knows just my fighting style and in that, he’s totally out with his commentary. So that’s why I don’t care about these trash talks because it’s just to build a confidence where there’s not confidence. Do you know how the true confident man, a real man, looks like? He don’t know.
“He don’t need to say some sh*t about others, to speak about his strong sides and about the weaknesses in his opponent because he’s self-confident too much to not do that. That’s, for me, the true power of the man. That’s it. I want to speak about others, but why ? I see that like a weakness to speak some bullsh*t about my opponents, man. I’m going there, I will show my best, and I will show that to all the world that I’m the best, and that’s all. My actions will talk.”
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