Jamahal Hill admits he threatened to knock out Joanna Jedrzejczyk during a UFC 323 watch party.
“Sweet Dreams” also admits he “tried to smash” the former strawweight titleholder a few years back; which for all you boomers out there, is slang for having sex. It appears their history may have played a part in the altercation that went viral on social media, one that certainly didn’t help Hill’s public image.
An image that has taken a beating over the last few years.
“If there was one thing I wish about this whole incident, I wish I had a GoPro on and people could see the complete insane sh*t that went down from this lady,” Hill said on YouTube. “This lady just completely flipped her sh*t. ‘I’m from Poland, I 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 f*cking smash your head in, too. I don’t give a f*ck.’ Now I’m like, she’s threatening me, now she’s threatening my girl. I have not threatened her. I have not raised my voice. 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? I told her, ‘You sound retarded.’ Now UFC staff comes, they grab her, they start moving her. Now she’s getting real loud talking about, ‘Just wait, I f*ck you up, I f*ck your girl up.’ And I’m like, ‘Yo, 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.‘”
Hill’s girlfriend, Adaire Byerly, told her Instagram followers she “wasn’t even there” when Hill and Jedrzejczyk got into their UFC 323 shouting match.
“I was at home, drinking wine, watching the fights,” Byerly said.
“This stems from when we were at an event,” Hill continued. “Now me, my girl, Joanna, her manager, we were all seated at the same table. Everybody’s getting along, there’s absolutely no problems at all. Joanna’s manager is playing this little game. Just to give y’all straight up context, just to let you know, I’m being straight-up honest. A couple years ago in New York, like when the whole thing with the bus incident happened, a bunch of us were there. Joanna was in New York, and when I was in New York, I shot my shot. I was shooting my shot, you know? I tried to smash. Her manager, the entire time we’re at this event, is like subliminally trying to drop messages to my girl, like, trying to dry snitch. Bro, I’m real. I’m a very honest and transparent person. My girl already knew this. So she just straight up turns to Joanna and says, ‘You had sex with Jamahal?’ Like, says this to her in front of my girl; which, understandably, could be embarrassing for her, right? Which is something I absolutely never said. ‘I’ tried to sleep with her.”
The 34 year-old Hill (12-4, 1 NC) once held the UFC light heavyweight title, but has since slipped all the way down to No. 6 in the official 205-pound rankings after losing three straight fights.
“So this is from New York. Right? I hit her up. ‘What are you doing?’ She sends me a video, ‘Come to the bar where I’m at.‘ She shares her location with me. I go to the bar, we chill, we have some drinks. I seen the type of attitude she has. It wasn’t really clicking or going nowhere. So it was like, it was what it was. I’m like, cool. I took my ball and I went home. You know what I mean? I’m gonna take my ball, and I’m gonna go home, because I’m not making shots today. The shot’s not going in today. That’s it, that’s the gist of it. After this, there was no bad blood from this. Whenever I got to the [UFC 323] event, I walked up and I addressed her, and I approached her this way. She completely flipped on me. I still, right now, am now being looked at, painted everywhere which way, and all this, I still don’t know why she’s mad. If she can tell anybody why she’s mad, please, truly, let me know.“
The 38 year-old Jedrzejczyk (16-5) retired from MMA after suffering a knockout loss to Zhang Weili in 2022 but has since teased a combat sports comeback for a potential “BMF” fight.
Watch Hill’s full response below:
