Fact Check: Did Alex Pereira Really Drop the N-Bomb on Jamahal Hill?

Alex Pereira knocked out Jamahal Hill and defended his light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 300. ‘Sweet Dreams’, who had vacated his title due to an injury, was determined to reclaim what he felt was rightfully his title.

However, one of Pereira’s famous left hands later, the challenger was on the ground, and referee Herb Dean stepped in to stop the bout shortly after. Hill was incensed and maintained that Pereira had used a break in action to get closer to him, so he could land the knockout blow. Hill took to social media to express his disappointment at the result and Pereira’s tactics and Pereira had a short but to-the-point response, which has created some controversy.

Truth behind Alex Pereira calling Jamahal the n-word

Jamahal Hill, scheduled to face Carlos Ulberg on UFC 303 on June 29, is clearly not over the Pereira loss. What seems to be especially irking to the Chicago native was Pereira’s victory celebration. After the bout was done, Hill was on the ground recovering from the TKO. At this point, Pereira would pull out the celebration that incensed ‘Sweet Dreams’. He pointed to Hill with his hands with his fists open, in homage to popular internet personality Khaby Lame.

This apparently has rubbed the former champion the wrong way, who took to social media recently and excoriated the Brazilian over it. He reminded Pereira of the respectful conduct he had shown even after the epic beating he had put on Glover Teixeira (‘Poatan’s friend and mentor) to take that title off of him at their UFC 283 clash just last year.

He even reminded Pereira how he had even “called out my fans for disrespecting Johnny Walker after I slept him” back in 2023. And he repeated his charge that Pereira had taken an (in his opinion unfair) advantage of a confusing moment to close the distance with him.

“@alexpoatanpereira you really setup a punch you couldn’t get to without a weird confusing moment and did some weak shit but it ok because you will fight me again and my eyes won’t leave you until your as stiff as Izzy left you in Miami!!!” Hill wrote.

And Alex Pereira, in response to the lengthy post from ‘Sweet Dreams’ responded simply with: “You reap what you sow, Chama.” This probably was a reference to Hill’s conduct during the official face-off for their UFC 300 clash. For the face-off, Hill came with a mini statue of the Easter Island heads, associated with Pereira. The statue, however, was bloodied and beaten up, implying that is what would happen to the champion in their fight.

On his Instagram Story, the light heavyweight champ did share a troll post, which had edited ‘Chama’ to ‘my ni**a’. To answer the question, Poatan did not use the n-word in his response to Hill. He only shared an edited response on his social media. Even as he licks his wounds after the UFC 300 loss, Hill will be back in the Octagon barely three months later.

Hill to be co-main event for Conor McGregor’s comeback PPV

Jamahal Hill, despite his humiliating loss at UFC 300, is anxious to get back into the fire. The former champ clearly has reservations about his last fight. ‘Sweet Dreams’ wants to get back to winning ways at once. To this end, he will be back in action in the co-main event of UFC 303. Headlined by Conor McGregor‘s comeback bout against Michael Chandler, the card will cap off UFC’s annual International Fight Week.

Khalil Rountree, originally supposed to fight Hill at the T-Mobile Arena, has been replaced by Carlos Ulberg. Rountree accidentally ingested a tainted supplement and is serving a three-month suspension, forcing him to pull out of UFC 303. And Ulberg looks, at least on paper, a formidable and exciting matchup for Hill. Both men have similar fighting styles: no-nonsense, bar brawler approach to fighting, getting straight to business. This is why there is a good chance that someone is getting knocked out.

This is cause for concern for many. Hill has insisted that since he did not get knocked out cold by Pereira, he was confident he could fight again so soon. This claim didn’t go well for former featherweight champion Alexander Volkanvoski. ‘The Great’ suffered a terrible head-kick knockout against Islam Makahchev last October. With remarkably similar reasoning to Hill, Volkanovski insisted on defending his title four months later at UFC 298, to disastrous results.

The Australian, who had previously looked almost invincible, suffered another crushing knockout, this time to Spanish wunderkind Ilia Topuria. And Hill, who last fought on April 14, will return to action not even three months after his TKO loss to Pereira. This has the potential to end disastrously for Hill.