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The leg kick that took Jiri off his feet got the crowd’s attention, for sure.when that first leg kick hit every sherdogger was like
Being southpaw can help and Hill showed in his fight with Glover he can use some pretty high level footwork and angle out well. There may not be a striker alive that can win the leg kick battle against Pereira but I think among the UFC LHW’s Hill might be the best equipped alongside Jan to not get their legs melted in 2 rounds.The leg kick that took Jiri off his feet got the crowd’s attention, for sure.
It you don’t come into a fight against Alex with an actual gameplan to avoid getting hobbled. You’re pretty much fucked already, imo. If you can’t check like Jan.. You need to KO/Submit Alex. And do it within 10 minutes. Or it can become a major issue.
Hill’s team better be ready for that.
I thought prochazka would win, but he got his ass WHOOPED pretty bad!
The leg kick that took Jiri off his feet got the crowd’s attention, for sure.
It you don’t come into a fight against Alex with an actual gameplan to avoid getting hobbled. You’re pretty much fucked already, imo. If you can’t check like Jan.. You need to KO/Submit Alex. And do it within 10 minutes. Or it can become a major issue.
Hill’s team better be ready for that.
I feel like I remember seeing a better replay that really showed Jiri going out. I think in the normal replay shown in the free fight, the moment in question is blocked by Goddard. Which Goddard was looking right at it, and I can't stand him but think he got this right. Though flash ko's mostly don't stop the fight. Funny enough, Jiri won the Reyes fight after being flashed KO'd by the upkick. So it was karmatic justice for him to lose in similar fashion.While I'm not sure what the ref's perception was, I have to strongly disagree with DC and Rogan.
Jiri was (and if I'm missing something, by all means feel free to correct me) attempting to drive forward on the TD immediately after having been dropped (true panic TD attempt) and then received ~6 hammer fists and started falling after Poatan landed 5-6 elbow from a position where Alex was bent over
Poatan's position (hips back) tells us that Jiri was dropping back purely due to the elbow strikes; not from a combination of strikes and Poatan driving his hips forward.
If Goddard saw and understood that, then IMO there's no way to question the stoppage considering that the only thing that kept Jiri from flopping back was the fact that his own arms were wrapped around the Brazilian's legs.
Re-watching that last portion, you can see one arm essentially go limp and the right kind of going stiff as he fell back while he taking a further 3 hard elbows.
That's the closest I can recall seeing to a pure knockdown (no hips) to a guy who is already in on the double; although I'd have to re-watch some of the more infamous ones from before.