"No, the hi-kick was not part of the plan for the fight. During the warm-up in the locker room, my trainer Plinio Cruz showed a video of Jiri warming up. We saw him trying to use one combination to counter with a low-kick to the calf, and we noticed that his timing in this workout was wrong. He was overly focused on not missing the low-kick, so he kept his hands quite low and thus his head was left unprotected. That's when I realized I should use the high kick," Bloody Elbow quoted Pereira as saying.
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Chimaev realizes that Pereira can knock him out