UFC 303‘s fundamental occasion noticed the reigning mild heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira retain his title in devastating style. After a dominant first spherical which noticed Poatan rating a knockdown within the dying seconds, the Brazilian made a press release within the second. Simply 5 seconds into the second spherical, Pereira landed a vicious swap head kick, flattening Jiri Prochazka, earlier than floor and pound ended issues.
What was so attention-grabbing in regards to the end is that the strike thrown will not be one thing that we’ve seen Pereira throw so much in his UFC profession to date. That stated, there’s a transparent purpose why he selected that strike particularly. Chatting with FullSendMMA after the struggle, Alex Pereira’s coach and translator, Plinio Cruz revealed that they noticed an Instagram publish that exposed a flaw within the strategy of Prochazka.
Alex Pereira noticed Jiri Prochazka warming up on Instagram earlier than the struggle and seen his fingers dropping when he checked the kick. This was what helped him throw the top kick that knocked Jiri out 🤯 #ufc303 #ufc pic.twitter.com/qnHlwLHW7l
— FULL SEND MMA (@full_send_mma) June 30, 2024
Under is the video that seems to indicate Prochazka drop his fingers when checking a leg kick. Pereira utilised this data to nice benefit within the struggle, scoring a headkick knockout as his opponent dropped his fingers, similar to what he did backstage when warming up.
Alex Pereira noticed this video on social media in his altering room and seen Jiri drops his fingers after each calf kick examine and determined so as to add the top kick to the sport plan
CRAZY 🔥 https://t.co/Rg8Md8Xd49 pic.twitter.com/oUrRIEzwGU
— OOC MMA (@oocmma) June 30, 2024
This does result in huge questions with regard to what must be filmed previous to the fights. Would Pereira have landed the top kick with out prior information of a ability flaw in Prochazka? We are going to by no means know, however Prochazka has a proper to be annoyed.
We broke down the struggle itself and all the UFC 303 card on this week’s MMASucka podcast:
