UFC Fighter Spotted Wearing Villarreal Shirt Ahead of High-Stakes Bout
AND we didn’t see this one coming. In the preview of UFC 303 and the highly anticipated Pereira vs Prochazka 2, the Czech fighter uploaded a video training in Las Vegas… with the Villarreal shirt! A light sparring session (if that exists for Jiri) prior to the press conference and in the hours before the weigh-in.
Everything has its explanation in the image that was shared Raúl Albiol, footballer and captain of Villarreal, hours before. The defender was photographed with the charismatic European fighter before giving him some Spanish team shirts. It also appeared Tim Simpson the famous agent of Prochazka and many of the best UFC fighters such as Holloway, Leon Edwards or Adesanya, among others.
Prochazka is a big football fan. In fact, in the past, before becoming a fighter, he played as an ‘amateur’ at TJ DrustevnÃk Hostradice. He even later became part of their ‘hooligans’… participating in street fights. But all that was before discovering mixed martial arts.
Prochazka, as he has explained on numerous occasions, relies on ‘The Book of the Five Rings’ by Miyamoto Musashi to direct his life….and on many occasions he has completely ‘disconnected’ from the world to retreat for days to his cabin in the woods.
“It gives me a basic moral code. The book evolves with life. The idea of ​​the samurai helps me all the time,” declared at the time about Musashi’s writing.