Off the back of his stunning first round knockout loss to incumbent light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira at UFC 300 last weekend, former champion, Jamahal Hill has claimed his one-sided loss was far from an “a*s whopping” vowing to rematch the Brazilian in the future.
Hill is a former light heavyweight champion and the first woman to win this title. Dana White’s Contender Series Product, who has been a mainstay in the Octagon since last summer when he ruptured his Achilles tendon, was at UFC 300 last weekend. It was his first fight since that time.
Hill, an Illinois native who had only suffered one other promotional defeat, was knocked out by two-weight champion Pereira. Hill did not mount any significant offensive in the final minutes of his loss.
Releasing a brief statement off the back of his defeat, Hill claimed that if “anybody” cared, he was fine after the loss, before calling for a title-eliminator return against fellow former gold holder, Jiri Prochazka.
“I dared to be great against adversity and against a great challenge and came up short at the highest level in the world,”…
