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Chapter 1: What inspired Jiří Procházka to train in nature?
Chapter 2: How does Jiří Procházka prepare for his fights?
the king of japan like yeah to to rule rule these guys real really and uh then i can go to the to the league of the best because if you want to go to the league of the best better to be prepared for yeah and uh yeah i think that happens too often that's why i can can fight for a title in in three fights so
I think boxing has it right in that boxing, they look at fighters, managers look at fighters as an investment. So if you're a manager and you have like Floyd Mayweather, you don't give Floyd Mayweather the best fight, you can get him right away with the toughest guy. You want to see how he performs with a guy who is an inside puncher, a body puncher who's a brawler.
You want to see how he handles a slick guy like Emmanuel Augustus with unorthodox movement. How does he handle Diego Corrales, long, tall reach? And you build them. with fighters that you think, you gotta know when they're ready. And then there's an objective assessment. Okay, he's ready. Then you start moving him into top 10 contenders. Then you move him to a title shot.
UFC throws you right to the wolves.
Yeah, it's good to have this objective view. I like to be just a watcher of my progress, of the situation, think about that, how to plan it, how to see that, not personally. Just to see yourself as another person and put myself in a way where it will be the best for these targets. And then go in and do that.
Yeah. Yeah. And when you you had a very quick rise in the UFC to a title fight. So you fought was Volkan Ozdemir your first fight?
Yeah.
So you beat Volkan Ozdemir. Then Dominic Reyes was the second fight. And then, bam, title shot.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Jiří face after a loss?
Chapter 4: How does Jiří balance aggression and control in fights?
That's crazy.
It's crazy. It's not a slight against Alex because Alex is willing to fight heavyweight. He's willing to fight what he weighs. Weight cutting is something that exists. It's sanctioned. They allow it to happen. They know what's going on, and it's cheating. That's right. They're not really 170 pounds. That guy's 195.
He's depleted and dried out, and then he's going to swell back up again, and he's going to look huge the next day.
But trick us. Everything is evolving.
Yes, they should evolve that because for the safety of the fighters, for the safety of the fighters, it's not good to dehydrate your brain 24 hours before a cage fight. That's right. It's dumb. But nobody's going to listen to me. Nobody listens to me, Uri. Nobody. Maybe off the DCI. I don't think they should even have cages. I think it should be an open floor.
I think it should be an open floor like a basketball court.
Yeah.
Because I think the cage allows you to get up when you wouldn't ordinarily be able to get up. You could walk. The cage allows someone to press you up against an unnatural object. There's a cage there. So you could press a guy up against a cage. Whereas if you were standing in the center, you could do Muay Thai sweeps. You could rotate around each other. There'd be more action.
There'd be more movement. That's right. I also think if someone takes you down at the beginning of the first round, at the end of the round, you're on your back, you start that second round in the same position.
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Chapter 5: What is Jiří's philosophy on self-confidence and humility?
Chapter 6: How has Jiří evolved as a fighter over the years?
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that weight class Islam Makachev is so fucking good and he's so big he's another one you stand next to him like how the fuck does this guy make 170 and he was actually talking about his first fight with Alexander Volkanovski and one of the problems that he faced was that the fight was very early Australia time so that it could be on pay-per-view in America so he was getting ready at 5 a.m.
so he did not have the time to recover and from the weight cut from the previous day. So instead of having a full 24-plus hours, so if you're weighing in at 10 o'clock in the morning now, what time did you weigh in in Los Angeles? Eight. Eight in the morning. So eight in the morning, and then you have a full 36 hours plus before you fight, which is plenty of time to recover and rehydrate.
But he did not get that with the Volkanovski fight, and you saw it in his performance. He didn't look as good. Okay. And because he's fucking big, man. I think weight cutting should be eliminated. I said this to Ari Emanuel when they first bought the UFC. I said, listen, man, you know what you should do? Get rid of weight cutting. Just stop it.
Look, if you can randomly test people for drugs, you can randomly test their weight. Show up with a scale. Hey, buddy, step on the scale. You're 190 pounds. How the fuck are you making 145? Do something like that. And come up with more weight classes. There should be a weight class every 10 pounds. This idea of these giant gaps like 185 to 205, that's a 20-pound gap. That's huge.
That doesn't exist in boxing. They should have every 10 pounds, 85, 95, 205, 225, and then unlimited. Instead of 265, let them weigh whatever the fuck they weigh. These got giant guys out there that can't fight in the UFC because they can't make 265, which is kind of crazy. Bigfoot Silva, when he was at his prime, when he was saucy, he was like 300 pounds. He was fucking huge.
I like the way they're open weights, man.
Yeah, yeah, open weight, not 265. Let Francis Ngannou weigh whatever the fuck he weighs when he doesn't cut weight. Probably weighs like 290. Instead of having weight cuts, just take the champions, find out what the champion weighs. Like, don't get rid of the championship belts. Find out what does Islam Makachev weigh? Islam Makachev is a UFC champion, best pound for pound fighter on earth.
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Chapter 7: What does Jiří think about the role of promotion in fighting?
Chapter 8: Why does Jiří believe in the importance of doing hard things?
And, you know, he doesn't have much time left in his prime. And Jan is maintained. Like, even at 40 years old, still, doesn't show any signs of deterioration.
That's right, man. When I thought about my next opponents, there was just, like, these guys. Ancalayev, Pereira. The Pereira's most, but let's see how the negotiations will be. The Pereira, Ankalayev, and maybe the Bakovic. So these three guys I see, still there I see the challenge. Yes. The challenge because I want to go somewhere where I will feel I can...
Because every time, when there is a challenge, there is a new you. There is something new, what you need to overcome, what you need to rule, what you need to...
you need to observe yes yeah they're the elite level of the game yeah you know jan bohovich he's one of the i think the only gods to go the distance with pereira other than bruno silva right yeah because he have the hands up also that guy's made out of iron i mean i'll never forget the fight with anko live when he was just going shin to shin with anko live and anko live could barely walk
Jan Bohovic is made out of rocks, man. That dude just... Man, I thought like he won that fight, but... Very close. Very close fight, but you could definitely see giving it to Jan Bohovic. There's a lot of those fights. Here's another thing that I think should happen in the UFC. I think we need more than three judges. I don't even think that the judges... Some judges are very good.
I think the judging in California was very good. I think overall, I think... We need at least five judges. I think three is too little. I think we need, because there's too many times where two judges get it wrong and the crowd is like, what the fuck?
I think if you had five judges, then you have two judges that would counterbalance that other and there'd be three, two in the right direction and you would get a good result. I think you're more likely to get a good result, an accurate result of what the fans and the experts see about the result of a fight than you would if there was only three judges.
Or fighting to win.
yes fighting to win well that that's the i mean what gordon likes to do gordon ryan likes to do is no uh no time limit fights he does no time limit fights with uh no points like let's say we're going to submission this is what this game is about it's a bit me strangling you that's right yeah yeah yeah imagine that if they started doing the ufc like the old ufc like ufc one no rules maybe for somebody it will be a little bit uh
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