Candy Desires’ Jamahal Hill has had a difficult yr as a former UFC champion. After having vacated the title and dropping to Alex Pereira, the US-born Hill is scuffling with the MMA neighborhood as he’s labeled an excuse maker.
Jamahal Hill Fires Again at MMA Followers
Michigan’s Jamahal Hill gained the UFC mild heavyweight title in early 2023 in opposition to Glover Teixeira. He then later vacated the title attributable to a extreme shoulder damage. Upon his return, at UFC 300 in April of 2024, he misplaced by way of first-round knockout to ‘Poatan‘ Alex Pereira.
In an interview, Hill defined his reminiscence of the loss:
“I finished. And you’ll see Alex Pereira continues to shut the gap on me. I perceive it was a chilly second, he obtained hit within the nuts. He pushed it off after which he got here. And it wasn’t a groin strike.
“Him closing the angle on me whereas I’m making an attempt to examine and ensure he’s good and issues like that… I ought to have peeped it, caught onto and guarded myself in opposition to. However, if Herb Dean might’ve executed something, I might’ve favored to have had a extra clear and higher reset. I believe that that will’ve been one factor I might’ve favored to see in a different way.
“[Herb Dean] stepped behind me, so he wasn’t exactly in my line of sight when he gave the go ahead signal. I did hear the fight, but it was a little late.”
He additionally added that he isn’t making an attempt to make excuses, as an alternative, he’s explaining his loss and is specializing in working again into title rivalry. In the present day on X, a Tweet obtained underneath his pores and skin. It requested, who’s the most important excuse maker within the sport. Some followers named Colby Covington and others named Jamahal Hill, and Hill responded.
“Yet nobody can name the excuses they are claiming I’m making!!! Y’all are just dick riding haters that want to feel like your on the level of somebody you can’t fw in any aspect of life!! … I was tagged 20x by dick riding bitches like yourself … You fags stay on my dick and can’t stop mentioning me.”
Hill will subsequent be dealing with the previous division champion Jiri Prochazka on January 18 at UFC 311.
