{"id":601882,"date":"2026-04-12T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:45:09","slug":"ufc-327-results-ulberg-kos-prochazka-to-win-light-heavyweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601882\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 327 results: Ulberg KOs Proch\u00e1zka to win light heavyweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The light heavyweight division has a new king, as <a data-player-guid=\"c1cd22d3-e99b-3f43-9753-743338fd4493\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4695736\/carlos-ulberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Ulberg<\/a> overcame injury to notch a first-round knockout over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3156612\/jiri-prochazka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/a> in the main event at UFC 327 at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed to favor the former light heavyweight champion early in the fight as Proch\u00e1zka was piecing up a hobbled Ulberg. But, as he was cornered, Ulberg landed a Hail Mary of a left hook that dropped Proch\u00e1zka for the victory. Ulberg now joins <a data-player-guid=\"94b3fe95-8304-7f5e-7183-57daf49a5c0e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3949584\/alexander-volkanovski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Volkanovski<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"d8b87175-656c-6805-bc26-64325a566122\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4285679\/israel-adesanya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Adesanya<\/a> as City Kickboxing fighters to win a UFC title.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the card, former middleweight contender <a data-player-guid=\"d1996f3e-6feb-6558-f478-a08a6d15917c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4080826\/paulo-costa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paulo Costa<\/a> established himself as a contender at light heavyweight with a win over <a data-player-guid=\"1c5e1c53-ce25-e726-0326-909594ee47fb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4227265\/azamat-murzakanov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azamat Murzakanov<\/a>. And <a data-player-guid=\"46360795-e619-ebf7-0bda-c5d20a45cea9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4049391\/josh-hokit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hokit<\/a> continued his cringe-worthy ascent at heavyweight with an unforgettable unanimous decision win over <a data-player-guid=\"f4f24f4d-7843-8688-0de1-b37def271216\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3922557\/curtis-blaydes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Blaydes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Okamoto, Andreas Hale and Dre Waters break down all the action from UFC 327 in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The light heavyweight division has a new king, as Carlos Ulberg overcame injury to notch a first-round knockout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}