In keeping with his head coach, Khalil Rountree will probably issue into this weekend’s grudge matchup between former champions, Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka at UFC 311 — with John Wooden revealing his pupil is planning a return towards that pairing’s winner.
Rountree, the present quantity seven rated mild heavyweight challenger, has but to return to motion since October, most just lately headlining UFC 307 in his impromptu premiere title cost since his Octagon tenure started.
And taking former two-weight champion and dominant mild heavyweight titleholder, Alex Pereira to the fourth spherical in a bloody back-and-forth in Salt Lake Metropolis, Syndicate MMA mainstay, Khalil Rountree would drop an eventual TKO loss to the Sao Paulo finisher on the Octagon fence.
Reflecting on his defeat to the Brazilian star, Rountree claimed he was “happy” regardless of the loss to the incumbent, revealing he believes he’s the place he must be and ought to be amongst the sunshine heavyweight pile.
Khalil Rountree prone to face Hill – Prochazka winner after UFC 311
Nevertheless, so far as a return for him is worried, in accordance with the above-mentioned, Wooden, Rountree will probably await the victor of this weekend’s UFC 311 pairing between Hill and Prochazka subsequent.
Yeah, we’re positively speaking,” John Wooden informed Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned. “He’s (Khalil Rountree) back in the gym now. He’s back in training. He’s healed up. So he’s starting to kind of get back on the horse and get everything going and firing in all the right directions. There has been talk. I think we have a big one coming up that the result of that fight might play out to see who would be next for us out of Jiri (Prochazka) and Jamahal (Hill). So that’s been talked about. There’s some other names that have been thrown around that I think make sense. But I think that Khalil is very interested in that fight. So that one’s going to be, I think, might be a tell of who we’re getting next.”
