Jamahal Hill says the apparent bad blood between him and Alex Pereira ahead of their UFC 300 headliner was never real, claiming the feud was manufactured to help secure the fight.
Hill revealed that the tension that appeared to build between the two light heavyweights before the historic April 2025 card was part of a plan, including a filmed incident at the UFC Performance Institute in December 2024 where they were shown being separated.
“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,” Hill said. “There was the video … We planned that. 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.”
Hill emphasized that his relationship with Pereira and his team is friendly outside the cage. “We’re cool, bro!” he said, adding, “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.”
