Former light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill opened about his UFC 323 backstage altercation with UFC Hall of Famer Joanna Jedrzejczyk on his YouTube channel.
The two were at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for this past Saturday’s UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 event. While in the VIP arena, the two had to be separated by security after an intense exchange. A brief video of the incident quickly circulated online.
In the video, Hill can be heard saying, “I’ll knock you the f*ck out … If you touch my girl I’m going to knock you the f*ck out.” Jedrzejczyk responded “Yeah, you will?’
“It’s been a long day. Instead of doing fight reactions over the amazing card we had this week, there’s another issue at hand that I must address,” Hill said. “As many people have seen, they’ve seen the video of the altercation between Joanna Jedrzejczyk and myself,” Hill said.
“I’ve now seen response videos. Her response video … and just comments of speculation of everything, just like a bunch of different things. So, ya’ll know me, right? So, I’m going to come and give ya’ll the real. I’m gonna come with some receipts. We gonna to talk about it. We gonna actually articulate and I’m gonna tell ya’ll what happened,” continued Hill.
“Let’s address some certain things in context because I’ve seen context where it’s been said that, oh my girl said something to Joanna, or my girl did something to Joanna. Or, Joanna’s not just going to go off and do all these things for no reason. How about this? My girl wasn’t even there. My girl was not at the fights at UFC 323,” Hill explained.
Hill attended the event with his brother. While he can be heard threatening Jedrzejczyk, the video did not capture the full context of the altercation. According to Hill, Jedrzejczyk was the aggressor.
“We went upstairs to the VIP lounge. The VIP lounge is where, you know, they’ll let fighters go. They’ve got a section for us. We can go get food. We can go get drinks. We can kind of chill out without being like bombarded by the fans and whatnot. That area is where this incident took place.”
“So, I walk into the area. I greet everybody. I go up to Joanna, I say ‘Hey, what’s up champ, how you doing?’ She’s like ‘yeah, what’s up? Where’s your girl? Your girl’s not here? Where’s your girl?’ I’m like no. I was like, no, she’s not here.’”
To Hill, the situation was ‘weird,’ and believes it stems from previous encounters with Jedrzejczyk.
“She’s like ‘you’re Mr. Big Player Man, Mr. Big Time.’ I’m like what are you talking about? She’s like ‘yeah, I don’t know how you get down in America but I’m from Poland. I’m from Poland, we’re real gangsters, I don’t do this shit, I don’t play this sh*t.’ I’m like yo, what’s going on? What happened? So I asked her about this. Was something said? Did you hear something? Talk to me. What’s going on? What are you upset about?’ This lady completely flipped her sh*t,” Hill said.
“She’s going off. She’s like, ‘Nah, motherf*cker, you like talking sh*t, you like talking sh*t!’ This is the first legible thing she’s said. I was like I was talking sh*t, let’s start there. What did I say? She said ‘No, I don’t do this, I’m from Poland motherf*cker.’ I’m like Joanna, I’m just trying to understand what you’re upset about. What did I say? What did I said, what did you hear that has you this upset? Can you articulate for me what you’re upset about?’
“[She said] ‘I’m no f*cking lawyer, I don’t have no f*cking lawyer, all this bullsh*t, I’m from Poland, I’ll f*ck you up, I’ll f*ck you up, I’m not f*cking scared.’ I’m like whoa, now she’s threatening me! Then she says, ‘I should have smashed your girl’s head in, go over and smash your head in, too! I don’t give a f*ck.’ Now she’s threatened me. Now she’s threatened my girl. I have not threatened her. I have not raised my voice to her. All I’ve asked her is what is the issue? What is going on? I asked her one more time, can you articulate for me what the issue is? What was said?’
“She said ‘No, you’re talking sh*t, you’re talking sh*t.’ Okay, if I’m talking sh*t, what did I say? [She said], ‘No, I don’t know, I just know you’re talking sh*t, I hear you’re talking sh*t.’ So you’re upset with me and you don’t know what I said. You can’t tell me what I said and you’re this upset but you can’t tell me what I said or what you’re upset about.”
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“I was, okay, like with that being said, you can’t tell me why you’re upset. You’re upset with me, you’re coming at me crazy and all these things and now I don’t give a f*ck about why you’re mad. I don’t care. I don’t care whatever reason why you’re mad. I don’t care. It is what it is and you sound f*cking retarded. I told her, you sound retarded, to me. At this point, she’s already threatened me, she’s threatened my girl. I’m not trying to hear this shit. She’s walked up in my face now. She’s also now approached me also in my face like she’s going to do something to me.”
“She was being aggressive towards me. The whole time. Threatening me, being aggressive towards me. Not one time did I get aggressive, did I go towards her, raise my voice, anything. At that point, I’m like you’re making a scene, this shit ain’t cool. The UFC staff comes, they grab her, start moving her away and now she’s getting real loud talking about ‘just wait, I’ll f*ck you and I’ll f*ck your girl up.’ I’m like if you would have touched my girl, I would have knocked you the f*ck out and if you touch my girl, I’m going to knock you the f*ck out. She’s threatening to assault my girl.”
