Newly minted UFC 205-pound champion Carlos Ulberg believes Jiri Prochazka is a pretender.
Prochazka and Ulberg locked horns this previous weekend at UFC 327 to seize the then-vacant gentle heavyweight title.
After absorbing some large leg kicks, Ulberg injured his knee, and a few speculated that he might need torn his ACL.
The Kiwi had issues even transferring or standing throughout the combat, and he has admitted that his nook would have stopped the combat after Spherical 1.
Nonetheless, Prochazka didn’t go for the final kill, and “Black Jag” determined to take issues into his personal arms and landed the proper verify hook that despatched Prochazka crashing to the canvas, after which Ulberg landed bombs from the highest to change into the brand new UFC gentle heavyweight champion.
Whereas Jiri Prochazka has opined that he was displaying mercy to Carlos Ulberg and chose not to finish the latter, “Black Jag” finds that declare arduous to imagine.
Ulberg has mentioned that the Czech fighter is a pretender, and he didn’t present him mercy.
The newly minted 205-pound champ believes the 33-year-old had second ideas throughout their combat, which is the explanation for Prochazka’s downfall. About the identical, “Black Jag” informed Ariel Helwani:
“That’s bullsh*t, complete bullsh*t. That’s the concern that he had. That wasn’t any type of mercy… There was no mercy in there. He was stuffed with concern, hesitation, and that’s what bought him clipped. I feel he’s a pretender. He is aware of that I do know that he’s a pretender. When that phrase ‘merciful’ was fed into his mouth that night time after. He went with it and performed with it, and that was his excuse in order that he may hopefully get a rematch. There isn’t a approach he will get that rematch.”
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Throughout the identical sitdown with Ariel Helwani, Carlos Ulberg mentioned he’s nonetheless undecided if he has a torn ACL. He plans to get the scans achieved to substantiate the identical. The 35-year-old additionally informed Ariel Helwani that his knee is swollen and he’s having a tough time even strolling.
“We don’t know for certain [if it’s a torn ACL]. I’ll get the scans achieved after I arrive in Vegas. The knee felt prefer it was going out and in of the socket…The ache was insufferable.”
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