Jan Blachowicz is standing up for his friend and fellow Polish fighter Jonanna Jedrzejczyk after footage came out of her allegedly threatening Jamahal Hill’s girlfriend at UFC 323.
Hill vs. Jedrzejczyk
was not something anyone ever expected to see, but fans at a VIP Experience booth at the T-Mobile nearly did, and some footage of the verbal altercation and security holding Jedrzejczyk back hit the internet.
“If you touch my girl I’m gonna knock you the f–k out,” Hill can be heard saying in the short clip.
While there’s been no video confirmation of what happened, the Las Vegas rumor mill has the incident starting over Hill claiming he’d beat Jan Blachowicz in a fight, and Hill’s girlfriend agreeing with him. Blachowicz fought at UFC 323 in the first fight on the PPV against Bogdan Guskov, with the bout ending in a majority draw.
Jedrzejczyk came out with a statement that didn’t really say anything other than suggest she wouldn’t beat the tar out of an untrained woman and didn’t deserve to be threatened. And now Blachowicz has his own video where he also doesn’t offer any clarity about the incident but does call out Jamahal Hill.
“Jamahal Hill, when we passed each other at the UFC PI, was very nice to me,” he said in a new interview with Poland’s In The Cage. “So it’s hard for me to comment on this situation because I don’t have more information than what’s happening on the internet.”
“But if he’s tough enough to insult Joanna, then listen: You don’t do that, and that’s not sportsmanlike,” Blachowicz continued. “So if he talks like that, we can settle it unsportsmanlike, and unsportsmanlike, I have more experience than sportsmanlike, so come on, right?”
“Just so he’s not surprised, in unsportsmanlike fights I’m a bit stronger than in sportsmanlike ones, where there’s no ref who will say stop.”
This incident is really blowing up U.S.—Poland relations. We’d just like to remind fighters that it’s perfectly normal for someone in your weight class to say they can beat you, and the proper response is to have a normal, sanctioned cage fight about it to settle the score. No need for a street fight, and no need for fellow countrymen (or women) to threaten anyone’s girlfriend either. Allegedly.
