“I know he wants a challenge. He wants a money fight, he wants to really get paid. It’s possible, especially after what we’ve seen in the last fight. Aspinall against Ciryl Gane, how effective the jab was and how [Aspinall] can be outboxed but I still think that’s a tough one...That’s a tough ask for the simple fact of he’s going to grab him. ‘Poatan’ has been able to defend the takedown but he has been put down on the ground at 205, those big guys at heavyweight, they will just lift him. They’ll be able to lift him...It’s possible… we gotta figure out what’s going on with the heavyweight division… but it’s possible, all it takes is one punch”

– via The Schmo giving a nuanced breakdown of Alex Pereira's potential move to heavyweight.

“I was there. You can feel the energy when he won, whenever he got the victory and everything, you know, he set everything on fire, you know. Yeah, that's a good thing. Shout out to him. Keeping the division alive, keeping it exciting, you know, having the biggest star in the sport right now in your division. It does nothing but motivate you”

– Hill praised Pereira in a recent youtube video.

“Yeah man, shout out to [Pereira]. He's like, this dude is impressive. You can't not be a fan of what he does. He said something in the face off before the fight. He said, 'I don't want to go back to the tire shop.' Like anybody that came from nothing that grinded to get to this point, they feel that. They feel that. They feel that they don't want to go back to that struggle or where they were, whenever they were dreaming of being where they are. Yeah, man. It's definitely you can definitely draw inspiration from that. You can definitely draw a lot from that.”

– Hill praised Pereira in a recent youtube video.