Contained in the Octagon, Jiri Prochazka is one of the most intense fighters in the game today. Exterior of the Octagon, he’s a peaceable man who strives to be the very best model of himself.
Earlier than his unimaginable second-round knockout of Aleksandar Rakic within the featured prelim at UFC 300, ‘BJP’ was noticed standing alone exterior of T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas. User @OGICEY posted the viral clip on X, noting that the previous mild heavyweight champion was in the identical spot for roughly 20 minutes.
Talking with media members following his second-round end in opposition to Rakic, Prochazka was requested in regards to the video and what led him to face exterior the venue moments earlier than his combat.
“Yeah, that was me,” Prochazka stated at Saturday’s post-fight press conference. “That’s my ritual, which I’m doing earlier than each combat.
“If you find yourself peaceable and quiet in your self and if you find yourself actually related to your self, to the most effective model of your self, and when you understand what’s going to come, what’s earlier than you, sooner or later or two days or every week, it doesn’t matter, you need to work on that day by day. They identify that the ‘regulation of attraction,’ so you need to simply observe your imaginative and prescient in an trustworthy approach.”
To start with, issues seemed tough for Jiri Prochazka as Rakic repeatedly peppered his lead leg with a bevy of brutal calf kicks. Undeterred, Prochazka continued transferring ahead, strolling down ‘Rocket’ decided so as to add one other highlight-reel-worthy end to his resume.
The second got here close to the two-and-a-half-minute mark of the second spherical when Prochazka blasted Rakic with a booming right hand that had his opponent reeling. From there, it was only a matter of time.
His unequalled depth and aggressive strategy contained in the Octagon have made Prochazka certainly one of MMA’s most feared combatants. Nonetheless, ‘BJP’ doesn’t thoughts if followers strategy him to say hi there whereas he’s out and about, even when it’s earlier than an enormous combat.
“I’m not a psycho,” Prochazka stated when requested about different individuals within the video who might have thought to strategy him. “It doesn’t matter, we are able to speak, we are able to no matter, however there’s a time when everyone needs to be alone with our issues. That’s my sort of meditation.
“That’s one thing once I began at 16 years outdated in highschool with this stuff, to observe my visions of my finest model on this life and observe them. This was that video, once I’m doing this stuff, as a result of if you actually need one thing, it’s not you need one thing. That dream, that imaginative and prescient needs you too and your work is to remain brave and take motion. That’s all.”
Jiri Prochazka bounces again following brutal loss to Alex Pereira
The massive win over Rakic at UFC 300 scored Prochazka a history-making $300,000 efficiency bonus. However for him, it wasn’t in regards to the further paycheck, nor was it about competing at one of many greatest occasions in MMA historical past. It was about redemption.
“For me, it was not an excessive amount of in regards to the occasion, however after my final combat in New York with Pereira, it was for me essential to make a spark inside myself,” Prochazka stated. “To point out to myself that storm, that hunter inside myself, and I’m very glad for that. Very glad.”
Pereira went on to complete Jamahal Hill within the first spherical of their UFC 300 headliner, probably setting the stage for a rematch between ‘Poatan’ and Prochazka.
However first, it feels like Pereira wants to handle some business at heavyweight.
