Former 205-pound champion, Jamahal Hill, has been paired off against No. 8-ranked light heavyweight bruiser, Khalil Rountree Jr., as part of the upcoming UFC 303 pay-per-view (PPV) event on June 29 in Las Vegas.
The booking came as a bit of a surprise to the cage fighting community, considering Hill is not far removed from his knockout loss to Alex Pereira at UFC 300. Fortunately, Dr. Hill has cleared himself for caged combat.
“I took no damage,” Hill said on YouTube. “Most of the fall was me falling down. I remember everything. I remember looking up, seeing his legs. I remember him coming in, trying to block, trying to reach for the underhook. He was able to land some shots and kind of throw my equilibrium off on the other side, but I was coherent the whole time throughout, for the most part. So, I take this on. We moving forward.”
UFC 303 is headlined by Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler at welterweight.
Hill (12-2, 1 NC) will be facing a dangerous test for his return. Rountree Jr. (13-5, 1 NC) is the winner of five straight, with four of those victories coming by way of violent knockout. That includes his UFC Vegas 83 destruction of Anthony Smith.
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