On July 14, the international media simultaneously reported that Jamahal Hill, the reigning UFC champion of Light Heavyweight's weight -to -injury. This boxer was injured in Achilles heel in a training session. This is a very serious injury, most likely that Hill cannot protect the championship belt next time.
Before Jamahal Hill, another UFC champion in the Light Heavyweight weight class, Jiri Prochazka, also had a serious injury after winning the belt. Prochazka has not played for more than 1 year, after defeating Glover Teixeira in June 2022. He was expected to be able to return to play later this year.
Like Jira Prochazka, Jamahal Hill also won the UFC Championship Light Heavyweight after surpassing Glover Teixeira. The match between Hill and Teixeira took place in January 2023. With Hill injury, UFC will take a long time to calculate the arrangement of the belt in the upcoming Light Heavyweight.
At the present time, the two fighters at the top of the Light Heavyweight weight, Hill and Prochazka are both injured. In theory, the two boxers who were trapped on the belt were Magomed Ankalaev and Jan Blachowicz, but they had just joined together last year in a match many viewers said that Ankalaev was better.
On the side of Blachowicz, he was about to encounter Alex Pereira in UFC 291, with a reward for the winner could be a belt match. With the long -term injury Hill, the opponent of one of these fighters is likely to continue to be Ankalaev, who has a series of 10 unbeaten matches in UFC (9 wins, 1 draw).