From UFC Connected, former light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz hits the court for a celebrity basketball match hosted by …
John blahovich’s heavy hands are his
trademark in the UFC but recently the
former light heavyweight champion took
his polish power to the paint for a
charity basketball game hosted by a
former NDA player the game pitted a team
of celebrities against one from the
Polish Army we scouted Yan’s skills on
the court in this edition of ultimate
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today we are in which we are on the
event we’re gonna play charity game NBA
when I was young I played basketball but
then I start trying to make mixed
martial arts so I have to remember what
I’ve done in more than 20 years ago
marching or not his organizator of this
event is the famous best football player
from Poland you play in NBA he do a lot
of Charity like these ones
is great personal gray the Sportsman and
I admire him well we started about eight
years ago throughout my Foundation we
are raising money for the children for
scholarship and for the youth players in
our country and we decided to do two
things at one event promote not only
basketball but also promote the respect
of holy soldiers and we’re excited that
Yamaha is going to join us we always
cheering for Yan and he’s basically
giving back to the community
awesome
to be honest doing tremendous job for us
Polish people he’s representing not only
himself his family but also 38 million
people
playing in front of 9 000 people in a
different sport it’s obviously
challenging but I’m quite sure he’s
gonna feel comfortable because he
obviously performed in front of a big
audience
we’re gonna help him out we have a few
Pro players but actually he’s gonna help
him
yeah
with the respect he has under the basket
and the respect he has on the floor I’m
quite sure nobody wants to stop him
nobody wants to challenge him so I’m
quite sure he’s gonna score probably
about four to six points I’ve got a good
tactics for today I’m gonna use my
elbows my knees
and that’s it you know I have to use it
a special way the referee cannot see it
this is the most important thing if
referee don’t see it you can use it
referee will you see it then you have a
problem
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thank you
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thank you
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I feel disappointed because we lost
cheeky Jan is a extraordinary man and on
top of that I have to say he’s big and
he’s a little touch around the rim with
no because for the guy he sighs it’s not
easy to shoot the basket and he’s doing
this very comfortably that that was
pretty amazing
my schedule very very weak because my
last time when I played basketball was
20 years ago the difference between this
kind of game and MMA fighting first
people inside the Octagon this is
serious
this will do for the fun for charity
so no pressure
everywhere with music we play with the
people with the fans this is the
difference you know
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