- Hi, GQ.
I'm Jiri Prochazka
And these are my essentials.
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The first one.
UFC belt, the biggest, biggest goal in my life.
So now it's, now it's here
and it was a so long time.
The, the main target in my mind.
Now I can continue in my way, but free,
free in my mind to be stronger, especially from,
from that tough war with the Glover.
That's why I'm proud for that.
It's not about new path, but it's like
this hair, I use that like a weapon
to see myself every time in the mirror,
know why I have it in, on my head.
After that fight, I had to, to change something.
Book of five rings from Miyamoto Musashi.
My coach Jaroslav, when I started MMA career
gave me that book and I was very young,
young and wild guy.
This book helped to give me some rules to my life.
I started to living, live by,
by these moral codes.
Especially for the bushido, bushido moral codes.
That's why everybody talk about me like
samurai or whatever.
It helped me a lot.
Not just because I fought in the Japan.
It's good too, to have a calm mind, know what to
what to do, to be honest for yours,
especially for yourself.
To love the world, to love the world.
- [Interviewer] After you won the belt and Jan Blachowicz
he was yelling
- [Jiri] Who? Jan
- [Interviewer] And you blew a kiss to him.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Was that a part of your philosophy?
- When the, when Jan started to be more aggressive too
because there was cameras and all these things.
So I, so I say to him, I love you
because be calm, be calm, the fight will be, but not yet.
Not yet, be ready.
My samurai outfit made, especially for Singapore
that's, that's made my sister, she, she do these,
these things and she,
she made this, especially for me
for the, for the Singapore fights.
I like the green.
I like the green one because it's a clover of the heart,
of the love.
It's not like a Samurai suit,
but it's like a modern Kimono.
I'm not taking the Kimono for every fight,
but I like to have a special clothes for every moment.
Yeah?
For Singapore, that was, this, this one.
Samurai sword katana.
This one gave me my sponsor today.
I have not my, my true katana,
my true sword which I have in Czech Republic.
The true power of the, of the sword.
What is this weapon for?
And there is just one reason,
it's for killing.
In my home, I have a sword, which is pure.
I like to train with, with katana
because it help me to ground my standup
when I'm training with the, with the sword
before the standup training, before the MMA training.
That's why I like the these traditional,
traditional samurai sword.
[speaking in Czech]
The Czech Flag.
Especially this one,
this one is not mine.
It's my coach father.
We took that, that this, especially this flag.
It symbolized for me, why I have to,
to fight, to prove myself.
I'm proud to be, to be Czech.
We have a lot to show the world
why we are sometimes from, from the history.
We are a little bit broken,
but the people there is good people.
Samurai shot,
it's a pure green tea extract,
which help me to, for my metabolism before the training.
A lot of people, they drinking the coffee.
I like to drink green tea, especially this extract.
Because it's helped me to keep the focus
in hard situation or, or when I need it.
My training stuff.
The UFC gloves.
My BJP
My BJP brand with
like, this is T-shirt.
And that's mean for me a lot because BJP brand is,
that's me, my,
that's my idea of the fighting.
The translation is big [beep] bombs.
Yeah.
To have a best precision in, in
in my hand to giving the,
the full power in every punch.
Yeah. That's for that.
The journal.
I think, who knows how to work with with his mind,
you have to write your, your, your thoughts.
And that's why, that's why I'm
I'm having the journal
because it's, it's so important for me
to know where I am right now, where I want to be.
If you want to, to see that everyday,
it's good to to have it.
All your targets, all your main things
or all your techniques
or your dreams or whatever.
That's, that's for that.
This my black jaguar necklace,
that gave me my shaman my spiritual guide.
To be connected with that power from these big cats.
Because it's a cat with
biggest, strongest bites.
It's strong animal.
And I like the strong animals, sharks, lions
all these cats.
These means for me, like to be to be the hunter,
to be the hunter, to to hunt my opponent in the cage.
Every time. All the time.
Yeah.
Thank you GQ, to having me here.
To share the, my essentials with you.
See you next time.