{"id":588368,"date":"2026-04-07T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588368\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:37:12","slug":"jiri-prochazkas-longevity-questioned-by-ufc-legend-ahead-of-ufc-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588368\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiri Prochazka’s Longevity Questioned By UFC Legend Ahead Of UFC 327"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC star Jiri Prochazka<\/a>\u2018s potential longevity in mixed martial arts has been questioned by UFC legend Matt Brown.<\/p>\n

In the main event of UFC 327 this weekend, Jiri Prochazka will go head to head with Carlos Ulberg over the vacant UFC light heavyweight championship. This is a belt that Jiri has held before, but after two losses to Alex Pereira<\/a>, he was forced to rebuild his way back to a title shot \u2013 and now, he is ready to prove that he can help carry the division at 205 pounds.<\/p>\n

Jiri Prochazka is one of the most unorthodox fighters in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and that isn\u2019t an overstatement. He does things that very few other fighters tend to do at this level, and yet, he seems to get away with it more often than not, which makes him very exciting for fans to watch.<\/p>\n

In a recent podcast, Matt Brown<\/a> expressed some doubt over how much longer Jiri Prochazka can continue to operate in this kind of manner.<\/p>\n

Matt Brown on Jiri Prochazka\u2019s longevity<\/p>\n

\u201cJiri, you just never really know what to expect,\u201d Brown said on the latest episode of\u00a0The Fighter vs. The Writer.\u00a0\u201cI think my biggest question with Jiri that I\u2019ve had for a long time and I\u2019m going to keep having \u2014 you can\u2019t play around with non-fundamentals forever. At some point, that starts to catch up with you. I think we\u2019ve seen that a little bit with Israel Adesanya<\/a>, and we\u2019ve seen it with Anderson Silva. It\u2019s like the Naseem Hamed, when he wins it looks f*cking amazing. God that\u2019s wild, it\u2019s amazing you did that! [But] you can\u2019t do it when you\u2019re 45 years old. Fight in the way that Jiri does.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point is saying that is we don\u2019t know when that time clock is going to hit, when the end is going to come for that. I know he\u2019s still young, I know he\u2019s not that old yet, but it can happen any time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Buckle up, folks, because this title fight is going to be a fun one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC star Jiri Prochazka\u2018s potential longevity in mixed martial arts has been questioned by UFC legend Matt Brown.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-588368","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\/588368","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=588368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}