Alex Pereira strategically added a head kick to his game plan after observing Jiri Prochazka's tendency to drop his hands during calf kick checks in a video on social media. Pereira capitalized on this opening and delivered a knockout head kick during their fight at UFC303.
Alex Pereira Saw Opening for Head Kick While Watching Video of Prochazka's Warmup https://t.co/rj7gTq7snt
Pereira decided to go for the head kick after seeing a video of Prochazka right before their fight 🤯 #UFC303 https://t.co/OtT9nPtJ6K
Alex Pereira saw the opening for his high kick by watching video of Jiri Prochazka warming up in the locker room 😳 #UFC303 “He was doing the wrong timing... He was keeping his hands down and leaving the head exposed." https://t.co/hpfuQBIXco
Alex Pereira saw opening for head-kick KO after watching Jiri Prochazka warm up in #UFC303 locker room https://t.co/o4xRrkep3n
🔥🚨| Alex Pereira says he saw a video of Jiri Prochazka’s warm up for #UFC303 and noticed he was preparing to counter his calf kicks, so he made a mental note to explore the high kick on Prochazka. 🧠🔥 “I was in the locker room, talking to Plinio(Cruz), and he showed me the… https://t.co/dLN6lS7C4T
🚨| Alex Pereira says they saw this video going around on social media in the locker room and decided to add head kicks to the game plan as they noticed Jiri Prochazka was dropping his hands as he was worried about the leg kicks. #UFC303 https://t.co/GtzhP7BdQf
Pereira came up with the idea of the head kick in the locker room. 'I saw the video of him warming up, and he was trying to counter the calf kick, but I noticed that his timing wasn't good... he was too focused on avoiding the calf kick, so he was open for a head kick.' https://t.co/GknQsH7jfQ
Alex Pereira says he saw a video that Jiri Prochazka posted of him in the locker room practicing defending calf kicks. 🤯 https://t.co/EjP1pae9DR
Alex Pereira says he saw a video that Jiri Prochazka posted of him in the locker room practicing defending calf kicks He says that Jiri was “too focused on not taking the kicks” and was keeping his hands down. This made Alex want to “explore the high kick”, which ended up being… https://t.co/ty2aRnJXHL
Alex Pereira says he knew he could get the headkick KO after watching Jiri warm up and be over focused on defending calf kicks. https://t.co/yFvHU9rP62
Alex Pereira saw this video on social media in his changing room and noticed Jiri drops his hands after every calf kick check and decided to add the head kick to the game plan CRAZY 🔥 https://t.co/oUrRIEzwGU https://t.co/Rg8Md8Xd49
Alex Pereira’s team watched Jiri’s warmup from social media and made a note in the gameplan to add the headkick 🤯🤯🤯 #UFC303 https://t.co/aJ5aSNjXJM
Alex Pereira saw Jiri Prochazka warming up on Instagram before the fight and noticed his hands dropping when he checked the kick. This was what helped him throw the head kick that knocked Jiri out 🤯 #ufc303 #ufc https://t.co/qnHlwLHW7l