There’s no beef between Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill, and there never was. That’s according to Hill, who claims all the pre-UFC 300 bad blood between the two was a ruse to get their fight booked.
Pereira and Hill had an entertaining little feud leading up to UFC 300, with the two nearly scrapping at the UFC Performance Institute back in December 2024. After two months of back and forth chatter between the two, the UFC announced that “Poatan” and “Sweet Dreams” would headline the historic April 2025
card. Exactly as Alex and Jamahal hoped would happen, apparently.
“We’re cool, bro!” Hill told Home of Fight about his relationship with Pereira. “I just want to make sure about this whole narrative and s–t. Like, dude, me and him are cool, bro. We don’t have any — there’s never been any beef. There’s never been like any animosity. We’ve never had to be separated or any of those things.”
That was an interesting thing to say considering there’s literally video of the two being separated at the UFC PI.
“There was the video … We planned that,” Hill said. “That was for us to try to hype up a fight between the two of us. Before, for Magomed [Ankalaev], I was trying to jump the line over Magomed because I didn’t want Ankalaev to fight him because I knew, I called it. Just like I called it, what happened happened. I mean, it wasn’t hate, it was just something that I saw, and I’m like, I’d rather be the one to do that.”
“But, yeah, bro, we cool, bro. I talk to his kids. Every time I see him, I speak to his family. Every time I see him, his whole team, everything like that. Bro, me and Glover, I mean, we have our little walks and s–t like that and everything.”
Alex Pereira never made it a secret that he was delaying the Magomed Ankalaev fight as long as possible as punishment for all the disrespect “Big Ank” was sending his way. If the whole feud with Hill really was an elaborate extension of that, we are both impressed and a little troubled. This bring wolf tickets to a whole new level. We know fighters often manufacture heat to try and sell fights, but now we have fighters manufacturing heat to avoid other more worthy contenders? That’s wild.
Let this be another lesson, one that we need to be reminded of in the wake of Strickland vs. Chimaev: most beef ain’t real. Don’t be a mark!
