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Alex Pereira<\/a> successfully defended his light heavyweight championship at UFC 303 on Saturday night, and a clip that was shared on social media helped him formulate a strategy for the fight. <\/p>\n Pereira knocked out former UFC light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka<\/a> with a kick to the head early in the second round. It looked like Prochazka never saw the kick coming: <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Had it not been for a warmup video of Prochazka that surfaced on Instagram before the fight, Pereira might have never attempted the head kick. Pereira revealed in his post-fight press conference that his coach, Plinio Cruz, showed him a video in the locker room of Prochazka practicing his calf kick counters. Pereira noticed that Jiri has a bad habit of dropping his hands when defending kicks.<\/p>\n \u201cI noticed that he was doing the wrong timing, and his timing wasn\u2019t good \u2014 I saw he was too focused on avoiding the calf kick, so he was leaving his hands down and leaving the head exposed,\u201d Pereira said, via Tom Llewellyn of Bloody Elbow<\/a>. \u201cSo, I told (Cruz), I\u2019m going to explore the high kick.\u201d<\/p>\n Cruz also confirmed in an interview that the strategy stemmed from the video of Prochazka.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah man, be careful what you post before your fights, alright?\u201d Cruz said. \u201cWe were browsing on Instagram and I saw somebody posted a video of us dancing, on the warmup\u2026the way he was doing what he assumed was the correct block for the calf kicks was wrong. I showed that to Alex and he said, \u2018Let me see that video again.\u2019 He goes, \u2018When he\u2019s doing this, he\u2019s putting his hands down. I\u2019m gonna kick this guy in the head.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n It is certainly possible that Pereira would have won the fight anyway, but it sounds like Prochazka made life much easier for the light heavyweight champ than it had to be.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n