{"id":80173,"date":"2025-08-19T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80173\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:50:07","slug":"tuf-champ-khalil-rountree-jr-beats-jiri-prochazka-with-hank-hill-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80173\/","title":{"rendered":"TUF champ: Khalil Rountree Jr. beats Jiri Prochazka with Hank Hill Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalil Rountree Jr. has a massive fight coming up with a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/alex-pereira\/alex-pereira-and-magomed-ankalaev-2-will-play-out-the-same-per-ex-ufc-vet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC light heavyweight champion<\/a> and a combatant who previously beat him has weighed in on this fight. Andrew Sanchez touched upon this fight ahead of his own clash against former PFL champ Impa Kasanganay inside the PFL smart cage on August 21st.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bigger wins that Sanchez notched in his UFC tenure came against Rountree Jr. victory that saw the former become the TUF 23 champion. When offering up his thoughts on the Jiri Prochazka versus Rountree Jr. fight coming up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/cory-sandhagen\/i-could-see-a-cory-sandhagen-flying-knee-at-ufc-320-says-pfl-finalist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a> on October 4th, Sanchez said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, Khalil is nasty, man. You see, he\u2019s knocking everyone out now. I don\u2019t know who, Jamahal Hill, he just put out. Jiri\u2019s good. He\u2019s tricky, he\u2019s funky, but I think Khalil has better fundamentals. I don\u2019t imagine; I mean, Jiri might try and take him down, but I trained with him [Rountree Jr.] not too long ago, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple years ago when I fought in PFL, I went back to Syndicate [MMA], and we trained. He\u2019s [Rountree Jr.\u2019s] not easy to take down now. So I do have my money on Khalil. He\u2019s just so athletic, explosive, and like good fundamentals. I think better fundamentals than Jiri. That\u2019s what it comes down to, fundamentals. Like you know, like Hank Hill says. King of the Hill, man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khalil Rountree Jr. has a massive fight coming up with a former UFC light heavyweight champion and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[48472,49,48,641,23657,48473,48474,638,1863,82,46781,640,44038],"class_list":{"0":"post-80173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-andrew-sanchez","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-impa-kasanganay","13":"tag-jiri-prochazka","14":"tag-khalil-rountree-jr","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-pfl","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-ultimate-fighter","19":"tag-ufc","20":"tag-ufc-320"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}