LAS VEGAS – Jamahal Hill says his knockout of Johnny Walker at UFC Fight Night 201 was just the tip of the iceberg of what he plans to do to ranked light heavyweights.
Hill (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) added another spectacular highlight to his reel Saturday when he flattened Walker (18-7 MMA, 4-4 UFC) in the first round of the headlining bout at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It was a brutal finish. Walker went flying back into the cage before getting his lights put out by a final blow.
To Hill, however, it was just clean work.
“Whenever it landed, I seen him kind of wobble,” Hill told MMA Junkie at the UFC Fight Night 201 post-fight news conference. “When I seen him wobble like that, I knew I had to get in and put another one on him and finish him.”
Hill, 30, now has back-to-back wins over notable names at 205 pounds in Walker and Jimmy Crute. He needed less than four minutes of total cage time to dispatch the two of them, and now he’s on an upward trajectory in the weight class.
He doesn’t know exactly what he wants next, but Hill said there are plenty more knockouts to dish out.
“I don’t know (who is next), man,” Hill said. “I feel like the division is a little tired, and ‘Sweet Dreams’ is here to provide some naps.”
The only thing Hill can say with certainty is that his goal is to hold the UFC belt. He next scheduled title fight in the division takes place at UFC 274 on May 7, when Glover Teixeira clashes with Jiri Prochazka.
Hill said Prochazka is something of a dream opponent for him, and he thinks an eventual fight between them – title or not – would be something special.
“The reason I want Jiri so bad is I feel like that’s a fight that from both ends, it would be a banger,” Hill said. “It would be a banger. I think it would be promoted well. Not too many other people have that star ability. I feel like I talk well, I feel like I dress well, I feel like I fight well. I feel like I’ve got that swag. I feel like he was one of those guys.”
