{"id":608056,"date":"2026-04-15T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608056\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:23:08","slug":"newly-crowned-ufc-champion-carlos-ulberg-admits-he-lost-the-belt-after-wild-miami-afterparty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608056\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly crowned UFC champion Carlos Ulberg admits he \u2018lost the belt\u2019 after wild Miami afterparty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly crowned UFC Light Heavyweight champion Carlos Ulberg got a chance to explore \u201cThe Magic City\u201d over the weekend after knocking out Jiri Prochazka<\/a> in the main event of UFC 327<\/a> (watch highlights here)<\/a>. Though effectively on one leg after blowing his knee early in the fight, \u201cBlack Jag\u201d made it to his afterparty rather than the hospital.<\/p>\n

The one problem? Ulberg isn\u2019t exactly sure where his belt ended up after a night of partying, though the Kiwi knockout artist doesn\u2019t seem particularly concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lost the belt, bro,\u201d Ulberg admitted to Fox Sports Australia<\/a>. \u201c \u2026 I don\u2019t know exactly where it is. Initially after winning, the plan was to not have a drink. But you know how these things go, right? First, someone gives you a champagne to celebrate. Then one thing leads to another and you\u2019re doing shots. So it\u2019s \u2018OK, I\u2019ll have another, and another, and another \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a big group of boys over here in Miami and, when the fight was done, we all went out to the afterparty at a nightclub. Then after that, it was back to one of the boys\u2019 apartments and we all hung out there. I didn\u2019t want to be carrying the belt around so I think it\u2019s still there at the apartment somewhere. One of the boys probably has it in bed with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulberg also revealed that he has yet to visit a hospital and get a confirmed diagnosis and\/or surgery on his injured knee. There\u2019s a lot of speculation that Ulberg tore his ACL, which would sideline the new champion for a year at minimum. That would-be diagnosis remains unconfirmed, however, and Ulberg expects to get imaging and treatment in Las Vegas sometime this week.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for updates on the new champion\u2019s injuries and subsequent layoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly crowned UFC Light Heavyweight champion Carlos Ulberg got a chance to explore \u201cThe Magic City\u201d over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,205749,1396],"class_list":["post-608056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-327","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608056","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=608056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}