Jiri Prochazka, UFC 303 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Eddie Regulation/Cageside Press
A battle of former UFC gentle heavyweight champions will happen at January’s UFC 311.
Jiri Prochazka (30-5-1) will face Jamahal Hill (12-2, 1NC) on the occasion, UFC officers introduced on Saturday. The match-up was revealed in the course of the UFC Macau post-fight present. Prochazka additionally introduced the reserving on social media, displaying some comedian ebook themed art work to advertise the combat.
Prochazka is presently ranked #2 within the UFC’s gentle heavyweight division, with Hill sitting one spot behind at #3. Each males are coming off loses to the identical opponent: 205lb champ Alex Pereira.
Czech Republic’s Prochazka has truly misplaced to “Poatan” twice, setbacks that sandwich a win in opposition to Aleksandar Rakic at UFC 300. He’s additionally a pupil of Glover Teixeira, the person Jiri Prochazka received gold from in 2022. Prochazka would vacate the title resulting from harm, after which Hill would declare it in a combat in opposition to Teixeira, solely to himself vacate resulting from harm, resulting in Pereira vs. Prochazka I.
Hill was speculated to have confronted off in opposition to Carlos Ulberg at UFC 303 this previous summer time, however was pressured out of the combat resulting from harm.
UFC 311 takes place on the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California on January 18, 2024. Whereas Islam Makhachev vs. Arman Tsarukyan has been rumored to be connected, no official fundamental occasion announcement has been made. The next match-ups have been reported for the primary UFC PPV of 2024:
Jiri Prochazka vs. Jamahal Hill
Jailton Almeida vs. Serghei Spivac
Rinya Nakamura vs. Muin Gafurov
Johnny Walker vs. Bogdan Guskov
Zachary Reese vs. Sedriques Dumas
Raoni Barcelos vs. Payton Talbott
Ricky Turcios vs. Bernardo Sopaj
Grant Dawson vs. Carlos Diego Ferreira
Karol Rosa vs. Ailin Perez
