Why is none talking about Jiri Prochazka?

[Shidlord]

After this KO of ozdemir, and his impressive record is he the one to defeat Jones?

 

[Human Bass]

His 1st round was awful.

 

[SteveColdStone]

He looked way too bad defensively for me to have any expectations of him being the champ. He has a weird style though and has huge power and good cardio. Fortunately, LHW is garbage.

 

[Schoolboy Q]

Aside from that massive KO he looked pretty bad, horrendous technique.

 

[Final Say]

I wasn’t overly impressed with his style or his fight overall, but the finish was extremely impressive. Especially over oezdemir. I’m cautiously optimistic

 

[GrayArea]

That was impressive and exciting to watch.

However, jiri looked sloppy and Volkan looked gassed after the first.

I’d like to see Jiri vs Jan next in a 5 round fight night main event. Or vs the winner of Tex/Santos

 

[Shidlord]

The amount of stoppages he has is quite frankly scary. this guy knocks people out at a better rate than Ngannou.

 

[peterparker66]

Because they are all whining about Usman or the Max v Volk decision

 

[ThePatriot]

Aside from that massive KO he looked pretty bad, horrendous technique.

Hands down, suspect chin too

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I thought he did well considering it was his first fight in a cage for quite a while and he was against a good, hard hitting opponent. I expected him to get KO'd because he carries his hands so low and I thought the step up in competition might cause him an issue because of that.

Would like to see him against the winner of Smith Vs Rakic next.

 

[Fahcough]

He's a bigger, harder hitting Jardine. Likely another Johnny Walker type, fun to watch with glaring holes

 

[Portland8242]

His wanna-be Anderson style is kind of entertaining, I'll give him that.

He'll prob get knocked out against Reyes or Santos though.

 

[orangecuse]

You should have seen all the clueless UFC only dorks during the fight. The guy is pretty well known and established outside the UFC with a nice highlight reel. But the morons were like 'Who is this guy,' 'he sucks', 'Volkan will crush him'. And the usual 'I'm butthurt because he doesn't have a lame boring typical UFC/wrestle boxing style'. And then after he won the only thing their original deep analyzing brains could all say is... derp Johhny Walker.

 

[Like a fiddle]

Reyes already defeated Jones.

 

[Adrianrmp2]

He looks goofy, goofy fighters get exposed

 

[LHWBelt]

Aside from that massive KO he looked pretty bad, horrendous technique.

I wouldn't say horrendous technique. Unusual is what I'd call it. I think that's why he won, volkan couldn't get an idea on what he was going to do next.

 

[MilesAbove]

Hands down, suspect chin too

Suspect chin how?

Rizin fighters can fight. They're weirder because it's not cookie-cutter UFC. Kape should be up soon as well, yes? You'll see more weirdness.

 

[spamburger]

he could probably beat jones because jones doesnt have power but he will lose to reyes, rakic, corey anderson

 

[AttitudeAdjuster]

He has an unorthodox style - hands low are considered problematic, but such a style has its pros if you can get away with that (and that is a million dollar question). If some of you guys actually fight a bit, you know that hands low give you better view, better defence against attacks on the mid-low section of the body (i.e. takedowns - which is quite important for someone like Prochazka) and if you have the experience and speed to back it up, you have some time to react even if you get tagged (so you get punched, but you compensate the punch partially with a head movement - it is not ideal, but it is a great help). Some parts of the first round from Prochazka were sloppier and it seems he knows that. I would attribute it to him being a bit undisciplined, nervous and single-minded. He will get better with experience and some mental adjustements. Considering movement - here I disagree with the opinion that it is sloppy. His style is based on reading the opponent, changing stances and angles etc. (he is not exactly Roy Jones Jr., but that kind of approach is a key to understand Prochazka's mindset and style). Obviously the comments like "he would get destroyed by XY" are just rubbish - Anderson and Reyes for example are very different fighters and a reactive counter-puncher such as Prochazka would fight very different fight against them. Obviously he might lose, but such general comments are just random guessing with no value.

 

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I’ve already seen 10 posts proclaiming him to be the one to beat Jon <45>