LAS VEGAS – “Poatan” didn’t use Black magic for his knockout.
UFC Mild Heavyweight champion Alex Pereira scored one other vicious end final night time (Sat., June 29, 2024) when he knocked out Jiri Prochazka for the second time with a head kick from contained in the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas (watch highlights). Pereira nabbed one other Efficiency of the Evening for his knockout.
Backstage after his win, Pereira’s coach and translator, Plinio Cruz, spoke to Full Ship MMA and revealed “Poatan’s” head kick got here from watching an Instagram clip of Prochazka warming up.
“Watch out what you submit earlier than your combat,” Cruz mentioned. “We had been searching Instagram, simply sitting within the again. Somebody posted a video of us dancing for the warm-up and Jiri preparing. What he assumed was the right block for the calf kick was flawed, and I despatched it to Alex. He mentioned ‘when he’s doing this, his fingers are down. I’m going to kick this man within the head.”
A Twitter consumer discovered the precise clip Pereira and his coach noticed on Instagram.Test it out under.
Now that this data has come out, possibly fighters will likely be extra secretive about their warm-ups. Or maybe this was only a fortunate once-in-a-lifetime screw-up by Prochazka.
Regardless of the case, Pereira and his staff are good for his or her analysis.
Bravo!
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