Yahoo Sports<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s fear. That was fear that he had. That wasn\u2019t any kind of mercy. He knows. He\u2019s a fighter. That\u2019s the difference between a champion and someone who\u2019s just playing for the crowd. There was no mercy in there. He was full of fear and hesitation and that\u2019s what got him clipped.\u201d<\/p>\nThroughout his UFC career, Prochazka has been celebrated for his highly unorthodox training methods and his unique approach to fighting, which often times leads to him being referred to as a modern day samurai.<\/p>\n
But Ulberg isn\u2019t buying that Prochazka fell prey to some sense of bushido code of honor in their fight this past Saturday night. Ulberg rewatched the fight and saw Prochazka attacking him with the same ferocity before and after his knee injury occurred.<\/p>\n
That only strengthened his belief that Prochazka loves the attention and adoration he receives for his persona but he doesn\u2019t buy that any of it is actually real.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s a pretender,\u201d Ulberg said. \u201cHe knows that I know that he\u2019s a pretender. I think from the very first time we faced off, he knew this was going to be a fight, this is a real one right in front of me. He could feel it. He knew that I knew he\u2019s a pretender.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when he had that moment where my leg was compromised, he thought \u2018this could be my opportunity\u2019 but with the perseverance that I had and pushed through that and was able to adapt with it, I wasn\u2019t going anywhere. There was that very moment where we looked each other in the eyes and he knew \u2018damn, this is going to be a fight, he\u2019s not going anywhere\u2019 and I\u2019ve still got my hands. That\u2019s the danger that I have is one shot can kill.\u201d<\/p>\n
While things were largely cordial between the fighters in the days leading up to the fight, Ulberg confessed that he\u2019s always felt like Prochazka was a fake. Witnessing his excuses for losing after UFC 327 only strengthened that belief.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always known it,\u201d Ulberg said. \u201cHe\u2019s just playing for the crowd. People just see those soundbites and believe it. That\u2019s playing for the crowd. I\u2019m here to be the best in the world. I\u2019m not here to play for the crowd. I\u2019m here to be the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the event was over, Prochazka took to Instagram and once again stated that he regretted showing mercy to Ulberg after he was injured and his hope was that they could run it back for a rematch in the future.<\/p>\n
Of course, Ulberg still has to wait to find out the full extent of his injuries before he can even begin planning his first title defense as UFC champion, but he promises that fight won\u2019t come against Prochazka.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen that word \u2018merciful\u2019 was fed into his mouth on that night when he had said what he said, he went with it and played with it that was his excuse so he could hopefully get a rematch,\u201d Ulberg said. \u201cThere is no way he gets that rematch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t see him getting past [Magomed] Ankalaev. He gets his ass beat from Ankalaev and I don\u2019t see him in that top picture anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Ulberg scored one of the most remarkable knockouts in history after he blew out his knee and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-605064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605064","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=605064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}