{"id":187653,"date":"2025-10-03T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:44:11","slug":"ufc-star-jiri-prochazka-claims-carlos-ulberg-previously-ducked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187653\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC star Jiri Prochazka claims Carlos Ulberg previously ducked him"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC sensation Jiri Prochazka has claimed that Carlos Ulberg wasn\u2019t interested in fighting him once upon a time.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Jiri Prochazka faces one of the toughest tests of his career<\/a> as he goes head to head with Khalil Rountree Jr at UFC 320. If he wins, there\u2019s a good chance that he could go on to face the winner of the Magomed Ankalaev vs Alex Pereira main event.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Jiri Prochazka \u201cwill be a problem for Khalil [Rountree]\u201d at UFC 320, per former Prochazka training partner Martin Buday<\/a><\/p>\n

With that being said, Carlos Ulberg is also eyeing up a potential showdown with whoever the champion is on Sunday morning. Given that he\u2019s coming off the back of a quick knockout win over Dominick Reyes, that makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

However, in a recent media scrum, Prochazka made it known that he isn\u2019t the biggest fan of Ulberg, mainly because he believe that he ducked him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Prochazka accuses Ulberg of ducking<\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t care what he wants,\u201d Prochazka told MMA Junkie and other media of Ulberg at Wednesday\u2019s media day. \u201cI want to right now go through Khalil and go for the title. That\u2019s all I can say. He already had the chance to face me, and I wanted to go to Australia to fight him and he declined that. So what can I say?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, the biggest challenge is to be the champion,\u201d Prochazka said. \u201cEvery time: to be a champion. And like a champion, then you can watch the others, where the next challenge is. I see one of the guys, (Ankalaev or Pereira), who will win this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes via MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n

Who do you believe would pick up the win if Jiri Prochazka squared off against Carlos Ulberg? Let us know your thoughts, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC sensation Jiri Prochazka has claimed that Carlos Ulberg wasn\u2019t interested in fighting him once upon a time.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-187653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}