Prochazka’s health? His shoulder is as good as new after surgery! It was torn before the serious injury, not dislocated

Jiri Prochazka is preparing for his next title fight in the UFC. The elite Czech MMA fighter will show up after more than a year and they couldn’t have put him in a better tournament than UFC 295 in New York. His coach, Jaroslav Hovězák, tried to answer how he’s doing health-wise and why his team doesn’t care where the tournament takes place.

After a serious injury, Jiri Prochazka is back. The last time we saw him was last June and then he tore ligaments in his shoulder in late November, which caused the rematch with Glover Teixeira to be cancelled.

During his absence, the situation in the division changed significantly and eventually Jamahal Hill won the belt, but he was also injured for a long period of time, so the question was who would Prochazka fight.

In the end, it will be with Alex Pereira, who last time beat Jan Blachowicz, who also wanted to fight the 30-year-old Czech. How is he currently health-wise?

“If we take the shoulder he had and he started with it, before the serious injury it was torn. It didn’t happen to him by dislocation. Now he has it after the surgery and it’s as good as new, better than it was against Dominick Reyes or Volkan Oezdemir. We are more than 100%,” coach Jaroslav Hovězák told Sport.cz.

Fans were also excited about the tournament Procházka will be competing in. It will be UFC 295 in New York, in the famous Madison Square Garden.

This tournament will feature a title fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic. But as Hovovazak admitted, his team basically doesn’t care. The important thing is simply to win and the rest is just extra.

“Speaking for myself, we don’t care. We are not going to have fun and watch other games. We’re there for our match. We have world experience. We have experience in the UFC and in Japan. We’ve been in super arenas with 50,000 people and we had a title fight.

We’ve been to Abu Dhabi, for example, where there were a few journalists. That tournament was more important and there was not so much hype about it. We simply have a way and that is to win the title. That’s our job. Whether it’s in Madison Square Garden or somewhere else, it doesn’t matter. We’re going for the title,” he added.

Source: Sport.cz