{"id":606718,"date":"2026-04-15T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:08:14","slug":"new-ufc-champ-carlos-ulberg-admits-he-already-lost-his-belt-during-drunken-night-out-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606718\/","title":{"rendered":"New UFC champ Carlos Ulberg admits he already lost his belt during drunken night out in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Ulberg\u2019s one-legged win over Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/a> for the UFC light heavyweight belt was one of the wildest title fights ever. The aftermath was apparently pretty wild, too.<\/p>\n

The newly minted UFC light heavyweight champion told Fox Sports Australia on Monday<\/a>, two days after his win at UFC 327, that the physical belt went missing over the weekend, reportedly saying, \u201cI\u2019ve lost the belt, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The New Zealander\u2019s explanation for what happened in Miami:<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, I don\u2019t know exactly where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially 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

\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 \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

So it appears we\u2019re not dealing with \u201cleft in a nightclub bathroom\u201d lost so much as \u201cit\u2019s in someone\u2019s apartment, we just don\u2019t know whose\u201d lost. But the UFC would probably prefer for it to stop floating around ASAP.<\/p>\n

\"MIAMI,<\/p>\n

If found, please return to Carlos Ulberg in Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

(Ed Mulholland via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Of course, it doesn\u2019t appear Ulberg is going to have to take it to a fight anytime soon. He still hasn\u2019t confirmed what exact injury left him limping on the mat before taking out Proch\u00e1zka, but he told Uncrowned\u2019s Ariel Helwani he was getting his knee scanned for a possible torn ACL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it appeared to be a significant knee injury, and those take a while to come back from.<\/p>\n

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If Ulberg is indeed sidelined for several months, the UFC will have a decision to make on how it proceeds with a division that has seen seven different men, including Proch\u00e1zka, win the belt since Jon Jones vacated it in 2020, with just four successful title defenses combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Ulberg\u2019s one-legged win over Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka for the UFC light heavyweight belt was one of the wildest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,25099,641,229008,48473,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-606718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-ulberg","tag-fighting","tag-fox-sports-australia","tag-jiri-prochazka","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606718","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=606718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}