{"id":375462,"date":"2026-04-12T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375462\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:22:09","slug":"live-ufc-327-carlos-ulberg-v-jiri-prochazka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375462\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: UFC 327 &#8211; Carlos Ulberg v Jiri Prochazka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4KG93H8_20241123_FightNight_UFC_Ulberg_4982_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"773\" alt=\"UFC Fight Night Light Heavyweight Fight. New Zealands Carlos Ulberg beats Volkan Oezdemir of Switzerland\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nCarlos Ulberg became the first Kiwi to claim the UFC light-heavyweight belt.<br \/>\nPhoto: Jayne Russell Photography\n<\/p>\n<p>King Carlos has his crown.<\/p>\n<p>Kiwi Carlos Ulberg is the new UFC light heavyweight champion after knocking out Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka in round one while on one leg.<\/p>\n<p>Ulberg blew out his knee after stepping back and landing awkwardly, and was clearly compromised as he hobbled around the octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Proch\u00e1zka did not attack the knee but instead opted to enter a firefight, a decision he said he regretted in his post fight interview.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech implied he showed mercy on Ulberg before the finish, but none was shown in return as Ulberg swung for the fences, and stunned the world.<\/p>\n<p>With one final desperation shot, Ulberg landed a picture perfect check left hook, landing flush on the jaw of Proch\u00e1zka.<\/p>\n<p>The lights were instantly shut off, Ulberg&#8217;s follow up barrage academic as his miracle kill shot had already done the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Ulberg becomes the first fighter from Aotearoa to claim the light heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>See how the event unfolded below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Ulberg became the first Kiwi to claim the UFC light-heavyweight belt. Photo: Jayne Russell Photography King Carlos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-375462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}