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UFC champ lost patiance with Jiri Prochazka: “The next man up now”

Published

June 14, 2023

Jamahal Hill is the UFC light heavyweight champion. Photo via Instagram (@sweet_dreams_jhill)

UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is growing tired of waiting for former champ Jiri Prochazka to recover from his shoulder surgery.

Prochazka has been out of action in 2023 and was said to return this summer, but at this point there are no words on the exact timetable for his comeback.

“Man, I heard the same thing y’all heard,” Hill recently said about waiting around for Prochazka .

“‘It’s summer time,’ but still where you at, though? Where you at, though? I mean, I haven’t heard anything. I’ve been waiting for the call. I’ve been ready to go. At this point, I don’t care. It’s the next man up now. Whoever peaks their head out first, whoever separates themselves from the pack, whoever solidifies themselves as No. 1 contender, whoever they send. It is what it is, bro. Send whoever, just give me a name. I don’t care who it is.”

Jamahal Hill won the title in January

The champion claimed to be tired of working with other fighters’ timetables and aims to be back in the octagon this fall.

“Hopefully it’s somewhere in September or October. I really, really, really wouldn’t want to wait until those times, which now I really don’t have much of a choice. I really don’t want to wait past that. I wanted to fight at least two more times this year as champion,” Hill said.

Jamahal Hill won the light heavyweight title in January as he defeated Glover Teixeira at UFC 283 in Brazil.

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